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Ukraine's economy went from Soviet chaos to oligarch domination to vital global trader of wheat and neon – and now Russian devastation

  • Written by Yuriy Gorodnichenko, Quantedge Presidential Professor of Economics, University of California, Berkeley
Ukraine's economy went from Soviet chaos to oligarch domination to vital global trader of wheat and neon – and now Russian devastationUkrainian wheat is vital to global food chains. But fighting near farmland like around Mykolayiv may prevent seeds from being planted.Mykola Sosiukin/EyeEm via Getty Images

Many factories and businesses still function. Other industries like those in information technology have barely missed a beat, with workers continuing to work from areas out of...

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