National Days & Anniversaries
Ivana Kupala 2011
By my seventh Kupala I had stopped finding it exotic and started finding it sensible, which is what happens when you live somewhere long enough.
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National Days & Anniversaries
Constitution Day, 28 June 2011
A short note on the anniversary, with the argument left where it belongs.
Economy & Macro
Emerging-market story or special case? The framing determines the analysis
Whether you treat Ukraine as one member of a broad emerging-market class or as a country requiring its own model changes almost every conclusion you reach…
Society & Regions
How foreign business communities organise, and what a newcomer actually gets from them
Every market has a layer of foreign companies who have already made the mistakes a newcomer is about to make. Finding that layer and getting useful…
National Days & Anniversaries
Vyshyvanka Day, 19 May 2011
A greeting for the day when the office, the tram and the whole street change colour, and a note on where the day came from.
National Days & Anniversaries
Easter 2011
The greeting exchanged three times, and the correct response, which took me several years to say without thinking.
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2011
Recovery continuing on external demand, an IMF programme running into its first conditionality problem, and a currency held fixed at a level the central bank was…
National Days & Anniversaries
International Women's Day 2011
A greeting, and an observation about who is actually in the room when a difficult decision gets made.
Trade & Investment
Why a market of forty million deserves attention, and why it usually does not get it
Ukraine is one of the largest consumer markets in Europe by population and one of the least covered by the companies that should be looking at…
Reconstruction & Recovery
The construction sector: what it can build, and where the ceiling is
Ukraine has contractors capable of delivering large projects to deadline — Euro 2012 proved it. What it does not have is enough of them, and the…
Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Annual Review 2010: recovery on two channels
A change of administration, a gas price agreement, a new IMF programme and an export-led recovery that never reached the domestic economy. The year's decisions postponed…
National Days & Anniversaries
Day of Unity 2011
Twenty years of independence approaching, and a January day about the geography of a single country.
Browse the analyses
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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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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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