After 35 years travelling the world for Bloomberg, The Associated Press and Brightwire, Adam founded Ukraine Rebuild Newswire to hold the West to its promise to "build Ukraine back better."
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff All foreign companies seeking work on the Ukrainian reconstruction should be obliged to create local companies to ensure a “level playing field” with local firms, the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) said in a new report. The Washington, DC-based think tank, which promotes open
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff Nobel Prize-winning economist Ken Rogoff, who serves on a panel advising Ukraine’s government, doubled his estimates of the country’s war recovery costs to as much as $1.2 trillion and called on Europe to spearhead the reconstruction. “After more than 500 days of
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff The government of Ukraine named Nobel Prize winners Ken Rogoff and Roger Myerson and five other economists to the newly created Economic Policy Advisory Council tasked with advising the Ukrainian Ministry of Economy on economic recovery. The council will “focus on developing recommendations on the
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff Veon, which owns the biggest telecoms firm in Ukraine, has agreed to consider working with Japanese telecoms firm Rakuten Symphony to rebuild and upgrade the Ukrainian infrastructure after the war to push for open radio access networks (ORAN) that can deliver 5G services. “The two
By Ukraine Rebuild News Staff Most of the early contracts in an estimated 1 billion-euro project to rebuild the Kiev suburb of Irpin, the scene of heavy fighting last year, were granted to “suspicious” companies with no open bidding, said Transparency International Ukraine. About 547 contracts have been granted by
