Agriculture & Food
How Ukraine came to lead the sunflower oil trade
A single policy decision in the late 1990s built an entire processing industry. It is the clearest example in the country of value addition working.
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Agriculture & Food
Holdings, farms and households
Ukraine has three agricultures operating on the same territory, with different technology, different finance and different products.
Economy & Macro
The bank clean-up nobody enjoyed but everybody needed
Roughly half the Ukrainian banking system was closed after 2014. It was brutal, it destroyed savings, and it is the reason a functioning banking sector exists…
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
Visa-free travel and what it changed
In June 2017 Ukrainians gained the right to travel to the Schengen area without a visa. The benchmarks behind it were a reform programme, and the…
Politics & Governance
Open procurement as an anti-corruption instrument
Prozorro did not make Ukrainian public procurement honest. It made it visible, and those are different claims. What visibility alone achieved is still worth understanding precisely.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Annual Review 2016: the year the new economy took shape
The first growth since 2013, a completed banking clean-up, a trade regime switched in one day, and a recovery built on sectors that barely featured in…
Economy & Macro
The central bank that became independent
A central bank that stopped financing the budget and started targeting inflation changed how every company in the country plans a year.
EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
The tariff schedule that nobody reads
A free trade agreement is not one decision. It is thousands of separate ones, product by product, and the interesting parts are in the annexes.
Trade & Investment
Rules of origin: the clause that decides your margin
Everyone reads the tariff rate. Fewer read the origin rule, and the origin rule is what decides whether you get the tariff rate at all. It…
National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Unity, 22 January 2017
A unity day greeting, and a note on the schoolchildren who now make up most of the chain.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2016
The country's largest bank was taken into state ownership in December. It was the final and largest act of the banking clean-up, and it removed the…
Folklore & Esoterica
The Ukrainian ritual year, mapped
The Ukrainian calendar of observance is not a list of holidays. It is an agricultural year with a Christian layer laid over an older one, and…
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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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