Quarterly & Annual Reports
Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2006
A strong close to a strong year, with the current account crossing into deficit and nobody treating it as significant. The quarter is a study in…
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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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Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2006
A government finally formed, under a prime minister whose party had lost the previous presidential contest. The policy direction became genuinely uncertain while the economy continued…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2006
Three months without a government and the strongest industrial recovery in two years, happening simultaneously. The quarter is the cleanest available demonstration that the two are…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2006
The year opened with a supply interruption and a near-doubling of the gas price. Every cost model in Ukrainian heavy industry had to be rewritten inside…
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Ukraine Annual Review 2005: a mandate spent and a precedent set
Growth fell to a fraction of the previous year, a reform government dissolved inside eight months, and one transparent auction demonstrated what the country was capable…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2005
An open international auction sold the country's largest steel asset for several times the previous year's price, and a gas supply dispute at the very end…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2005
A government dismissed, a coalition dissolved, and — in the middle of it — the clearest signal of the decade that a competitive privatisation was possible.
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Ukraine Market Report — Q2 2005
Administrative price interventions in food markets, a sharp slowdown in industry, and the first clear evidence that the 2004 growth rate had been a price effect…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q1 2005
A new administration, a reform mandate, and an immediate policy problem: what to do about the privatisations of the previous decade. The answer given in this…
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Ukraine Annual Review 2004: the best year and the wrong lesson
The strongest growth of the independence period, a record external position, and a political crisis at the end of it. The year is most useful as…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q4 2004
A disputed election, mass protest, a repeat vote and a change of government inside eight weeks. The commercial system absorbed all of it without a payments…
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Ukraine Market Report — Q3 2004
Economic momentum held through the quarter while political risk priced in sharply. Businesses stopped making decisions and started waiting, which is itself an economic event.
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