Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2012
Output contracting, the construction programme finished, an election in October and a currency defence consuming reserves that were no longer being replaced.
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Politics & Governance
Elections and investment: what actually changes and what does not
Investors routinely put decisions on hold before a Ukrainian election. Looking at what has actually changed after each one since 2004, that caution has usually been…
National Days & Anniversaries
Knowledge Day, 1 September 2012
The first bell, and the first day of a school year.
National Days & Anniversaries
Independence Day 2012: after the tournament, before the reckoning
Ukraine hosted a European Championship, built four airports and a great deal of road, and finished the summer with growth close to zero and a currency…
Society & Regions
Chernivtsi and the Habsburg west: why the map still shows
Ukraine's western regions spent the nineteenth century under Vienna rather than Saint Petersburg, and the difference is visible in the building stock, the legal culture and…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2012
The football tournament in June delivered new airports, stadiums and roads, and a rare demonstration of what Ukraine can build when a deadline is externally imposed…
National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala, 7 July 2012
A midsummer greeting, and a note on the one part of the night that has genuinely changed.
Society & Regions
After Euro 2012: what the infrastructure was worth, and what it cost
Four airports, four stadiums, several hundred kilometres of road and a renewed intercity rail fleet. The assets are real and will last decades. The procurement was…
Economy & Macro
Privatisation: three waves, and what each one produced
Vouchers that made everyone a nominal owner of nothing, insider sales that created the industrial groups, and transparent auctions that finally produced market prices. The difference…
National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day 2012
A short greeting on a June day, kept short for the usual reason.
Economy & Macro
The cost of defending a currency peg, and who eventually pays it
Ukraine held the hryvnia at a fixed rate against the dollar for years after the underlying balance had stopped supporting it. The defence was expensive, the…
National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day, 17 May 2012
A greeting for the third Thursday in May, and a word on why the machine-made shirt bothers nobody.
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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
46
Damage assessment, recovery financing, construction capacity and the institutions being built to spend it well.
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EU & Euro-Atlantic Integration
49
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
57
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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