Elections, governments, parliamentary arithmetic and the institutional reforms that shape the business environment.
For years a Ukrainian company could be taken over by someone changing a line in a register. Understanding exactly how that worked explains exactly how it…
Three years into a reform programme is the point at which the difference between adoption and implementation becomes measurable. Sorting the record at that stage is…
Ukraine closed roughly half its banks in a few years. It was brutal, it was necessary, and it is the reason the system survived what came…
Prozorro did not make Ukrainian public procurement honest. It made it visible, and those are different claims. What visibility alone achieved is still worth understanding precisely.
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…
Ukraine built a system requiring officials to publish what they own, in a searchable public database. The design decisions behind it explain why it worked and…
Ukraine replaced its traffic police entirely, in public, in a matter of months. It is the most visible reform the country has done and the lessons…
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…
NATO declared that Ukraine and Georgia would become members but declined to offer a Membership Action Plan. The formula gave Kyiv the political exposure of a…
The government that came out of the Orange Revolution was dismissed in its entirety in September 2005. The proximate cause was a corruption dispute; the underlying…
A disputed election, a court annulment and a repeat vote. Stripped of the political drama, the events of November and December 2004 established one precedent that…
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