Similar starting points in 1991, similar populations, similar Soviet industrial inheritance. Thirty years later the per-head gap is large, and the explanation is mostly resource endowment…
A tax code passed in December brought small business onto the streets, and the recovery closed its first full year led entirely by exports.
Published rich lists are read as gossip and are more useful as sector data. Year-on-year changes in the largest fortunes are a rough but revealing indicator…
A Christmas greeting on the January date, from a guest at the table.
A New Year greeting, at the hour when the whole country is at the same table.
Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Moldova were treated as secondary relationships for two decades. Between 2014 and 2023 they became the routes through which the entire…
A greeting for the morning of the small gift, and a note on the parents doing the work.
A candle in the window on the fourth Saturday of November.
The argument for openness is usually made in terms that persuade nobody. The real case rests on three specific mechanisms — the cost of capital, technology…
For most of the 2000s Ukraine received the low grade of everyone's export range. That was not a preference; it was a consequence of how the…
Television dominated for two decades, ownership was concentrated in the same groups that owned the steel plants, and the advertising market was smaller than the political…
Ukraine has been losing working-age people continuously since 1991. It is the single most important long-run economic variable in the country and receives the least policy…
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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