Strategic autonomy in practice: Ukraine’s critical raw materials, growth accounting and shift-share evidence, 2010–2023
This article examines whether Ukraine’s endowment of critical raw materials (CRMs) – here, graphite, titanium (ilmenite) and manganese – can support post-war growth while advancing Europe’s strategic autonomy. Two transparent tools are combined. First, a resource-augmented growth-accounting identity attributes real-GDP...