Society & Regions
Getting around a Ukrainian city
Ukrainian cities have excellent bones for public transport and have spent thirty years partly dismantling them. That is now reversing.
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Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
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Sport, clubs and civic identity
Sport in Ukraine carries civic weight beyond the results, and understanding the club structure explains a good deal about the cities they belong to.
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Getting healthcare, in practice
The Ukrainian health system was rebuilt around a purchaser paying providers for defined services. What that means at the level of an actual patient is the…
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The IT workforce and how it was built
Ukraine has a software industry considerably larger than its economy would predict. The reasons are specific and they are not the ones usually given.
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Rural Ukraine, described without romance
A Ukrainian village is not a picture of traditional life. It is a household economy under demographic pressure, and describing it accurately means describing the arithmetic.
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Odesa as a port city and a market
A city built to be a port has a commercial character that outlasts any particular trade. Odesa has been through several and has kept the character.
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Dnipro: industry, engineering and adaptation
A heavy industrial city with an engineering tradition, an unusually entrepreneurial business culture and a recent role nobody planned for it.
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What the pandemic revealed about a health system built for a different century
Ukraine entered the pandemic with more hospital beds per head than most of Europe and worse outcomes than almost all of it. The contradiction explains the…
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The social protection system
The shift from subsidising everybody's utility bill to paying targeted support to households that need it is one of the more consequential reforms, and one of…
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The housing stock and who owns it
Ukraine has one of the highest home ownership rates in Europe and one of the weakest housing markets. Both facts have the same cause.
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The education system, assessed
Ukrainian education has one outstanding structural achievement and one persistent weakness, and both matter to anyone hiring here.
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Kyiv as an economy in its own right
The capital accounts for a share of national output far larger than its share of population, which is normal for a capital and has consequences worth…
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