The most valuable thing Ukraine can obtain from the European Union in trade terms is not a tariff cut. It is mutual recognition that a Ukrainian…
Before the reform, clearing a consignment meant assembling approvals from several agencies in sequence. The single window made it one submission, and that changed the character…
A banking system that lost a third of its institutions had to persuade households to put money back in. The mechanism that did it is a…
A week of pancakes, visiting and hospitality immediately before the longest fast of the year, which is exactly why it is as excessive as it is.
Ukraine built a set of anti-corruption institutions after 2014 that did not previously exist. The interesting question is not whether they work perfectly. It is how…
On the old new year, whole villages put on masks and go through the streets. It is one of the largest surviving carnival traditions in Europe…
Money sent home by people working abroad is one of the largest inflows the country receives. Where it goes inside a household is well documented and…
A third year of growth, an IT sector that had become a top-tier export earner without any policy support, and a labour market where the binding…
Ukraine prohibited the sale of agricultural land for two decades. Understanding what that did explains most of what the sector looks like now.
The interesting part of decentralisation is not the legal reform. It is what several hundred communities did once they controlled a budget, and how visibly the…
A greeting for the day, and a note on the human chain.
An incident in the Kerch Strait in November, a period of martial law in ten regions, and a new short IMF arrangement agreed in December against…
A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
Growth, inflation, the hryvnia, budgets and the macro-financial programmes that keep Ukraine's economy running.
Foreign trade flows, free trade agreements, customs practice and the practical mechanics of entering the Ukrainian market.
Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
Gas, electricity, transit, nuclear generation, ports and the transport corridors that connect Ukraine to its markets.
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
The Association Agreement, DCFTA, candidate status, accession negotiations and the regulatory convergence behind them.
Grain, oilseeds, the land market, export logistics and Ukraine's role in global food supply.
Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
The ritual year, the symbols embroidered into cloth and painted onto eggs, the Carpathian practitioners and the philosophers — the older layer beneath modern Ukraine.
Independence Day and the other dates in Ukraine's calendar, each read against the state of the country in that year.
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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