When I was giving my ‘Governor Talks’ speech at the International Monetary Fund and World Bank annual meetings, Alfred Kammer, director of the European department at the IMF, asked me an interesting question: “How has Ukraine managed to make such record-setting progress on the IMF programme track even as the war goes on?” The question came as a great opportunity to analyse the issue and share my thoughts on how my country had changed to be able to so confidently make its way forward in its