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Ukraine underwent some serious changes since the beginning of 2014. Its people forced the then acting President Victor Yanukovych to flee the country and demanded fundamental changes in almost all spheres of political...
October 10, 2014 9:48 am / 6 comments
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GDP: The Institute revised downwards the forecast for 2014 and 2015 to take into account increasingly devastating effects of prolonged military conflict in Donbas. Real GDP is expected to decline by 7.6% in 2014 and...
October 9, 2014 12:13 pm / 18 comments
Gloomy as this commentary may seem, the reality is what it is and you cannot take umbrage at it. Clearly none of the Western countries wants to support the Ukraine by selling it high-tech military weapons, so that the better-equipped Ukrainian...
September 27, 2014 2:54 pm / no comments
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The portal The Price of the State developed by INESS in 2006 keeps inspiring bright minds in many countries around the world. It is the simple idea to communicate complicated fiscal numbers and relationships via...
September 11, 2014 2:56 pm / 1 comment
The EU’s new economic Agreements with Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine could have a major geopolitical impact on Europe’s relationship with Russia.
“The EU stands by your side, today more than ever before”
Herman Van Rompuy, European Council...
August 17, 2014 4:04 pm / 1 comment
Who has caused the crash of a malaysian boeing? Putin, little green people? Not really. We all did. The European Union, NATO, UN, international community – everyone.
It is a standard that airways above the areas of military actions are closed....
August 5, 2014 8:15 am / 1 comment
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Douglass North has famously defined institutions as “the rules of the game,” but in reality, they are much more than that, especially in a transition context. Institutions are the semi-permanent manifestations of...
June 26, 2014 9:00 am / 1 comment
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On June 27, 2014, Petro Poroshenko, newly elected President of Ukraine, will sign the economic part of the Association Agreement with the EU, political part of which was signed in March 2014. Same day Georgia and Moldova...
June 22, 2014 9:00 am / no comments
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In May, Ukraine, which has not experienced any internal military conflict for the last 60 years, is close to slip into a full-fledged war. The government launched a large-scale military operation against rebels that...
June 21, 2014 11:34 am / no comments
Studying the impact of migration on the economy is a challenging task. In this article we assess the impact of remittances from abroad on GDP and balance of payments of Ukraine. Also we analyse the consequences of migration for the labour market...
June 21, 2014 10:25 am / 1 comment