Politics & Governance
The one-stop administrative centre
Before the reform, obtaining a document meant visiting several offices with different opening hours. The change was not primarily technological.
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2019
A new parliament with a single-party majority, an anti-corruption court beginning work, and a legislative pace that produced more measures in three months than the previous…
Trade & Investment
The road machinery market, from the inside
Twenty years of importing plant into this market taught me that demand is not driven by construction volume. It is driven by budget certainty, and those…
Economy & Macro
State-owned enterprises and the supervisory board experiment
Ukraine tried to fix its state companies not by selling them but by changing who governs them. The results are mixed in an instructive way.
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day 2019
The first of September, and a note on the twelve-year school that Ukraine decided to build.
Trade & Investment
New air routes as a leading indicator of where trade is going
Airlines commit aircraft on the basis of forecast demand, and their route decisions are among the most honest signals available about where commercial activity is expected…
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day 2019: a government with no excuses left
Twenty-eight years, and for the first time since 1991 one political force holds the presidency and a single-party majority in parliament. Everything that does not get…
Folklore & Esoterica
The Ukrainian wedding as a ritual sequence
A traditional wedding is not a party with customs attached. It is a sequence of defined stages, each with its own songs, roles and objects, running…
Politics & Governance
The insolvency code and the creditor experience
A supplier chasing an unpaid invoice does not care about the philosophy of insolvency law. They care whether the process ends, and when.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2019
The electricity market opened to competition in July, replacing a single-buyer model that had governed the sector since independence.
National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2019
A midsummer greeting, and a note on the fern flower that nobody has ever found.
Agriculture & Food
Poultry as an export success
Ukraine became a significant poultry exporter to demanding markets in about fifteen years. How it was done is a template worth understanding.
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Quarterly & Annual Reports
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A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
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Economy & Macro
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Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
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Trade & Investment
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Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
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Politics & Governance
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Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
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Energy & Infrastructure
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Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
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Reconstruction & Recovery
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Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
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EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
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The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
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Agriculture & Food
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Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
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Society & Regions
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Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
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Folklore & Esoterica
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The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
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National Days & Anniversaries
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Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
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