I don't know actually how they live in Columbia (no word about shadow incomes of drug traffickers). Yet, I have no grounds not to trust the World Economic Forum, which has been studying the competitiveness of Ukraine and its regions with the Foundation for Effective Governance for the third year.

A reporter of the Vesti Newspaper discussed in English with the former Canadian Prime Minister Kim Campbell the problem of being a woman in the world of politics, which is dominated by men, corruption as the key challenge of Ukraine, Ukrainian hospitality, Rinat Akhmetov and cottage cheese pancakes

The Chairman of Dnepropetrovsk Oblast State Administration Aleksandr Vilkul intrigued everybody well in advance with a meeting of the Region’s Council. He had promised new best-practice approaches to a concept of a development strategy for our region with big capabilities

The face of Zeinab Badawi, British broadcaster and program anchor, is familiar to television viewers of BBC World News and BBC4 from many countries of the world. In November 2009, London-based Association for International Broadcasting (AIB) named her “international TV personality of the year”

Strategic business plan of Dnepropetrovsk Region development will be produced by the world renowned specialists

Aleksandr Vilkul, Dnepropetrovsk Oblast Governor and Foundation for Effective Governance presented a regional development strategy. Some questions arise in this regard...

Ukraine has improved its position on three pillars. Still, it is down 10 places in the global ranking from last year

In The Global Competitiveness Report 2009-2010 Ukraine fell ten places to the 82nd position out of 133 economies. This was the statement of Natalya Izosimova, Managing Director of the Foundation for Effective Governance at a presentation of Ukraine Competitiveness Report developed within the partnership project of the Foundation and the World Economic Forum (WEF).

For the third year in a row, the Foundation for Effective Governance (FEG) and the World Economic Forum (WEF) have been studying the competitiveness of Ukraine and its regions. The results of the study for 2009-2010 presented in Kyiv on 30 June appeared to be nothing near so optimistic.

According to the final Ukraine’s Competitiveness Report prepared by the Foundation for Effective Governance and the World Economic Forum Ukraine is down 10 places from last year.