Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2018
An incident in the Kerch Strait in November, a period of martial law in ten regions, and a new short IMF arrangement agreed in December against…
A continuous record of the Ukrainian market, quarter by quarter and year by year: output, currency, trade, sectors and what each period settled.
An incident in the Kerch Strait in November, a period of martial law in ten regions, and a new short IMF arrangement agreed in December against…
Steady growth, an IT sector that had quietly become one of the country's largest export earners, and a gas transit contract expiring at the end of…
A bridge opened across the Kerch Strait in May, and the physical constraint it imposed on vessels reaching the Azov ports became a commercial fact for…
Growth continuing, EU exports expanding as more producers cleared certification, and a labour market tightening quarter by quarter across every sector that employs people at scale.
A second year of recovery, visa-free travel, the association agreement fully in force, and the emergence of a labour shortage that would bind harder than any…
A second full year of growth, EU exports rising as certifications accumulated, and labour shortage emerging as the constraint that would define the following five years.
The association agreement entered fully into force on 1 September, and a set of social sector reforms passed in the autumn. The reform programme reached its…
Visa-free travel to the Schengen area took effect in June. Its economic significance was not tourism — it was what it did to labour mobility and…
A trade halt with the non-controlled eastern territories, formalised in March, severed the coal and metallurgical supply chains that had survived the previous three years.
The first growth since 2013, a completed banking clean-up, a trade regime switched in one day, and a recovery built on sectors that barely featured in…
The country's largest bank was taken into state ownership in December. It was the final and largest act of the banking clean-up, and it removed the…
A strong harvest, a recovery consolidating, and the first Ukrainian food producers receiving EU establishment approvals — the point at which the trade agreement started producing…
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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