Demography, labour, migration, regional economies and the human context behind the numbers.
Ukraine is often discussed as one economy. It is more usefully understood as several, with very different structures, and the differences explain most of what happens…
Written as someone who studied here: the system has real strengths, real weaknesses and a large international enrolment that is worth understanding honestly.
Money sent home by people working abroad is one of the largest inflows the country receives. Where it goes inside a household is well documented and…
Of every long-run variable that determines what this economy can become, population is the one that moves slowest and matters most. It deserves to be stated…
Visa-free travel to the EU changed the direction of Ukrainian tourist flows immediately. Its effect on inbound tourism was smaller, slower and more interesting, because it…
Labour migration from Ukraine has been one of the largest movements of working people in Europe for two decades. It is usually discussed as a loss…
Kyiv's dining sector improved faster than incomes did, which is unusual and instructive. What drove it was a domestic produce movement, a devalued currency and a…
Ukraine's first Soviet capital, an engineering and university centre of a million and a half people, forty kilometres from a border. Every one of those facts…
It had no industrial policy, no state investment and almost no domestic clients. It grew through a currency collapse, a war and a pandemic, and it…
Kyiv's main avenue was destroyed in 1941, rebuilt in the 1950s in a single architectural gesture, and has since become the place where the country's political…
The Kyiv Polytechnic and the Institute of Cybernetics are the reason a software industry appeared here in the 2000s with no policy support. Institutions outlive the…
In 2000 most consumer goods in Ukraine were sold from open markets. Two decades later organised retail dominates the cities and the bazaar survives in a…
The primary sources this archive rests on. All of them official bodies or institutional data providers.
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