Politics & Governance
The one-stop administrative centre
Before the reform, obtaining a document meant visiting several offices with different opening hours. The change was not primarily technological.
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Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
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The insolvency code and the creditor experience
A supplier chasing an unpaid invoice does not care about the philosophy of insolvency law. They care whether the process ends, and when.
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Regulatory impact assessment, and the consultations worth joining
A draft regulation is published before it binds anybody, with a window for comment. Most companies discover the rule after it applies and complain instead.
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The language law, explained carefully
For a business the language law is a compliance question with a clear answer, and it is far less complicated than the political discussion around it…
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An election that was about the system itself, and what a mandate for change can and cannot do
The 2019 result was an unusually clear verdict on the political class as a whole rather than on a policy direction. That kind of mandate creates…
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Healthcare financing, rebuilt
Ukraine changed how it pays for healthcare, from funding buildings to funding treatments. That single change altered the behaviour of the entire system.
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Building anti-corruption institutions from nothing
Ukraine built a set of anti-corruption institutions after 2014 that did not previously exist. The interesting question is not whether they work perfectly. It is how…
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What a community does with its own money
The interesting part of decentralisation is not the legal reform. It is what several hundred communities did once they controlled a budget, and how visibly the…
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The Business Ombudsman Council
An institution set up to take complaints from businesses against the state, with no power to compel anything, which nonetheless recovered a great deal of money.
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How the Rada actually passes a law
Anyone whose business depends on Ukrainian legislation should understand the procedure, because knowing where a bill is tells you what can still be changed.
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Open data as public infrastructure
Ukraine publishes an unusual amount of state data openly. The value of that is not transparency in the abstract; it is what specific people do with…
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A professional civil service
A state is only as capable as the people in its ministries. Building a civil service that survives a change of government is the least visible…
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