Ukraine has a legal framework for industrial parks, a register of them, and tax and customs benefits attached. It also has a large gap between the…
A Christmas greeting on the January date, and a word about the carollers.
A new year greeting, and a note on the two weeks that follow tonight.
The nineteenth of December, and the volunteers who make sure the custom reaches children who would otherwise miss it.
A candle in the window on the fourth Saturday of November.
A greeting for the day, and a note on the words a language keeps that others have no room for.
Doing Business rankings, competitiveness indices, risk ratings and bank research all describe the same country and disagree substantially. Understanding what each one measures explains why, and…
In an underdeveloped category the constraint is not competitors taking your share, it is that almost nobody is buying the product at all. Firms that recognise…
A strong harvest, a recovery consolidating, and the first Ukrainian food producers receiving EU establishment approvals — the point at which the trade agreement started producing…
For years households paid a fraction of what gas cost. Ending that was the most painful economic reform of the period and the most necessary.
From August, every public tender in Ukraine runs on one open electronic platform. The savings get the headlines; the more important effect is that the state's…
The first of September, and a note on the external testing that changed who gets into university.
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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