Economy & Macro
Remittances as a macroeconomic pillar
Money sent home by Ukrainians working abroad has been one of the largest and most stable inflows into the economy, and it behaves differently from every…
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Folklore & Esoterica
Reading embroidery
Ornament is often described as a written language with a decodable meaning. Some of that is well founded and a good deal of it was invented…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2019
An election quarter with a currency that strengthened rather than weakened — an unusual combination, and the explanation lies in who was buying Ukrainian government bonds.
Politics & Governance
Healthcare financing, rebuilt
Ukraine changed how it pays for healthcare, from funding buildings to funding treatments. That single change altered the behaviour of the entire system.
Agriculture & Food
Silo capacity and post-harvest losses
Grain lost after harvest is grain grown for nothing. Ukraine loses a meaningful share of its crop this way every year, and the fix is capital…
Trade & Investment
Getting paid: terms, instruments and reality
The most common commercial failure in a new market is not losing a sale. It is making one and not being paid, and the instruments that…
Agriculture & Food
Milling wheat, feed wheat and the quality question
Not all wheat is the same product, and the difference between milling and feed grades is where a large amount of Ukrainian agricultural income is decided.
National Days & Anniversaries
International Women's Day 2019
A greeting, and a thought about the difference between a day that celebrates and a day that acknowledges.
Folklore & Esoterica
Paska and the Easter table
The Easter bread is tall, sweet and difficult, and it is baked in a house where nobody is allowed to slam a door while it is…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
The Energy Community and the rulebook
Ukrainian energy market law was written to a European template years before accession was on the table. That is why the sector integrated so quickly.
Economy & Macro
Ukraine went cashless faster than most of Europe
A market that never had chequebooks or legacy terminals adopted card and phone payment faster than markets with a longer banking history, and the reason is…
Energy & Infrastructure
The electricity market that replaced the single buyer
For most of its independent history Ukraine had one electricity buyer, one set of administered prices, and no market. The 2019 reform replaced that with day-ahead…
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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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