In the world of politics, 2024 promises to be one of the most significant and dynamic periods, given the planned elections in almost 70 countries with a combined population of almost 4 billion people, which is more than in any other year in the history of the world. That is why many have already called 2024 the year of elections, and the results of some of them could be fateful for all of humanity. On the YouTube channel of the Experts Club think tank, we analyzed the top 10 most important elections in the world that could lead to dramatic changes in the international agenda.
The United States: the return of Donald Trump?
The most anticipated political event of 2024 is the presidential election in the United States scheduled for November 5.
“These elections could lead to significant changes in the political landscape of the world, with the potential return of former President Donald Trump being of particular interest. His candidacy has already sparked a lot of debate, in particular regarding his impact on American foreign policy, relations with allies, and support for Ukraine. The results of this election may determine America’s global course for the coming years,” said Maksym Urakin, founder of Experts Club.
Great Britain: time for change for the Conservatives?
The United Kingdom is also preparing for important parliamentary elections, which, according to the expert, could be a turning point for the ruling Conservatives.
“Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is facing many challenges, including polls that predict a ‘heavy defeat’ for his party. The elections in Britain could dramatically change the country’s political course,” emphasizes Maxim Urakin.
According to all the polls, the Conservatives are 15-20% behind Labor.
Taiwan: elections amid tensions with China
In Taiwan, where the presidential election is scheduled for January 13, the political situation is burdened by growing tensions with China.
Urakin notes that the elections in Taiwan could exacerbate geopolitical tensions in the region, especially between China and the United States.
“Of the three presidential candidates vying for victory, Lai Tsingde, who is the candidate of the ruling Democratic Progressive Party, is fiercely anti-Chinese. The second candidate, Hou Yu-yi of the opposition Kuomintang, wants to start negotiations with Beijing. The third candidate, Ko Wen-jeou of the Taiwan People’s Party (TPP) and former mayor of Taipei, offers an intermediate position closer to reconciliation. Polls favor the candidate with an anti-China stance,” the founder of Experts Club emphasized.
India: Elections in the World’s Largest Democracy
India, the world’s largest democracy, will also face important elections. It is expected that elections to the lower house of the Lok Sabha will be held in April-May.
“These elections are not only important for India, but also important for the entire international community, given India’s growing role on the world stage,” – Urakin said.
The year 2024 will undoubtedly be a year that will bring important changes in international relations and domestic policies of states that are key players on the world stage. Political analysts and experts are eagerly awaiting the results of these elections, which may set the global agenda for the coming years.
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The State Tax Service (STS) has planned 3,242 inspections of businesses – both companies and individual entrepreneurs – for 2024. In more than half of the cases, documentary inspections of companies will take place. Most often, the tax authorities will visit businesses in Kyiv, and the most popular industry for company audits will be wholesale trade.
The State Tax Service has planned 2,328 inspections of companies and 914 inspections of sole proprietorships for 2024. This is 19% less than in 2023, when the tax authorities visited 2,551 companies and 1,461 individual entrepreneurs.
This is reported by Opendatabot, citing data from the State Tax Service.
In the vast majority of cases, 61.6%, tax authorities will check company documents. In 28% of cases, the State Tax Service will visit fops. At the same time, inspections of businesses that have questions about military duty and unified social tax will be halved by 2023, down to 156 companies. Inspections of non-resident financial companies account for only 5% of the plan.
Kyiv has the highest number of inspections – 590. Dnipropetrovs’k region is in second place with 205 inspections, followed by Lviv region with 156.
Businesses operating in the wholesale trade sector will be inspected most often – they account for 22% of the total number of company inspections. In 2024, businesses in the field of agriculture and hunting will also be the most frequently inspected by the tax authorities – 14.8% of inspections. The top is rounded out by inspections of retail businesses – 6.9%.
You can find out whether your business or partners are scheduled for inspections for free in the Opportunity Bot. To do this, send the bot the company code. If the business is on the tax plan, the relevant information will appear in the company card.
Interfax-Ukraine news agency has announced that it has signed a license agreement with Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), becoming its official representative in the Ukrainian market. This step symbolizes a new stage in the development of the Ukrainian business environment, as it opens up access to global resources for verifying and analyzing business information.
The main product of D&B available through Interfax-Ukraine is D&B Hoovers, an online database that allows users to search and verify information about companies around the world. This tool will become an indispensable assistant for those seeking to expand their business horizons.
Also in the arsenal of products are Business Information Reports, which offer an extended investigation of the activities of any company in the world.
Users of D&B and Interfax-Ukraine services will be able to check foreign partners and counterparties, build corporate relationships, minimize risks in terms of payments and contract performance, and search for potential clients and partners around the world. D&B also conducts investigations, aggregates data on counterparty payments, analyzes business statistics and calculates various indices, including fraud, bankruptcy, payment discipline, and financial stability.
D&B’s business assessment ratings are considered a global benchmark for making decisions on cooperation. Due to the volume of orders and the well-established business procedure, D&B’s services are affordable, and access to information has a user-friendly interface that simplifies data processing.
Oleksandr Martynenko, CEO of Interfax-Ukraine, said that cooperation with Dun & Bradstreet is an important step in the agency’s development.
“We are proud to open the gateway to the global information services market for our clients. Our goal is to provide Ukrainian companies with up-to-date and accurate information that will help them grow and prosper in a globally competitive environment. The cooperation between Interfax-Ukraine and Dun & Bradstreet opens up new opportunities for Ukrainian companies seeking to expand their business internationally,” he emphasized.
In his turn, Maksym Urakin, Deputy CEO of Interfax-Ukraine and Head of the Business Unit D&B-Interfax-Ukraine, emphasized the strategic importance of the partnership between Interfax-Ukraine and Dun & Bradstreet for Ukrainian business.
“Now, having access to D&B’s global network of information, Ukrainian entrepreneurs will be able to significantly improve their competitiveness and reduce risks when searching for and screening partners around the world using the most advanced tools for business intelligence and strategic planning,” said Urakin.
This cooperation, in his opinion, is also evidence of the growing interest of global corporations in the Ukrainian market, emphasizing the potential and opportunities that, despite the war, are opening up for investors in the context of business globalization and the prospects for rebuilding Ukraine.
Interfax-Ukraine, as the official representative of D&B in Ukraine, is ready to provide a full range of D&B services and products, including detailed business intelligence and analytics that will be useful to anyone seeking to make informed and balanced business decisions.
The company invites interested parties to discuss cooperation opportunities and demonstrate the system at their convenience, emphasizing its openness to new partnerships and readiness to support the development of the Ukrainian business environment in accordance with international standards.
“Interfax-Ukraine is an independent Ukrainian news agency that has been operating in the Ukrainian political and economic information market since 1992 and has gained a reputation as the most authoritative and competent provider of timely and objective information. The editorial office (headquarters) is located in Kyiv. “Interfax-Ukraine is not a part of any foreign media holdings. The owner of Interfax-Ukraine is Oleksandr Martynenko.
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The event is organized to support fundraising for mobile hospitals for the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
On February 10, 2024, for the first time in Ukraine, the
INFLUENCE TALK FORUM is the largest offline event aimed at popularizing and developing Ukrainian digital and its new promising professions.
The forum will be attended by more than 2,000 guests.
Among them are the best digital experts, influencers, entrepreneurs and veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
The forum speakers will explain the value of digitalization and effective mechanisms for its implementation in new professions in an accessible and comprehensive manner, based on their own experience. After all, a developed digital sphere means, first of all, more information about Ukraine in the world, the opportunity to socialize at any age and get a new promising profession, in particular for veterans of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. It also means more jobs, motivation to stay in Ukraine, more taxes to the state budget and more donations to help the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
INFLUENCE TALK FORUM is a new large-scale project from the organizers of InstaTalks.
In order to support active youth, revitalize the labor market and give impetus to the development of digital in Ukraine, they were the first to successfully resume offline events in 2022 despite the blackouts.
The forum itself has another important mission – to support fundraising for military mobile hospitals, which are full-fledged hospitals on wheels and can save the lives of Ukrainian defenders and civilians directly on the front line without wasting precious time on heavy and lengthy transportation of the wounded.
Join the educational and charitable event to make the digital sphere more understandable and open up new development prospects. And mobile hospitals could save the lives of our defenders in a timely and effective manner.
Media partners: Interfax-Ukraine and Open4business portal.
Start of the event: February 10, 2024 at 10.00
Website: https://www.instatalks.com.ua
ProZorro.Sale JSC became a finalist for the IAM Asset Management Excellence Awards 2023 and was named one of the world’s six best projects working with the digitalization of asset management, it was announced during the annual official award ceremony held by The Institute of Asset Management (IAM) in London on December 4.
As noted in the release of the state-owned company on Tuesday, the finalist organizations demonstrated the application of the best principles and approaches in asset management, adapted to digitalization trends, and their projects were a response to business and consumer requests.
The IAM is an international non-profit organization that has been bringing together asset management professionals since 1994. The Institute recognizes projects and innovative achievements in asset management in the face of modern challenges. The IAM Asset Management Excellence Awards annually honor projects around the world that innovate in asset management in the face of modern challenges.
It is specified that Prozorro.Sale JSC, which administers the state electronic trading system, which hosts online auctions for the sale of public assets, reached the final in the Digital Innovation category. In the final in this category, ProZorro.Sale competed with projects and companies from Spain and the United Kingdom. The winner in this category was a project to improve the efficiency of asset management by Transport Scotland.
“More than seven years ago, with the launch of public online auctions in the Prozorro.Sale electronic trading system, the state began to change the approaches and principles of public asset management. During this time, transparent and open e-auctions have become an effective tool for the state and communities, which have already brought more than UAH 80 billion to the budgets of various levels, and opened up opportunities for businesses to obtain resources for development, including during martial law,” commented First Vice Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko.
According to her, the inclusion of the Ukrainian IT solution – the state electronic trading system Prozorro.Sales – in the world’s best in the Digital Innovation category of the prestigious IAM Asset Management Excellence Awards is evidence that it is impossible to achieve results in asset management without digitalization.
“Being among the top 6 best projects in the world is a great responsibility for us, for the entire ProZorro.Sale ecosystem, which includes both ProZorro.Sale JSC and platforms, organizers and bidders. Amid the war, we are more than ever determined to continue working on improving the system and increasing the efficiency and transparency of asset sales in even more markets,” said Serhii But, CEO of ProZorro.Sale.
The company reminded that in 2022, the state electronic trading system ProZorro.Sale was recognized as the best public service by the most prestigious UN Public Service Awards. The administrator of the system, Prozorro.Sale JSC, guarantees the security of electronic auctions, the impossibility of interference in their course and equal access of each participant to participate in the auction, the release emphasizes.
We are pleased to invite you to PM & BA IT Rally in Kyiv.
We have gathered top speakers who will share their practical experience, interesting cases, and insights into project management and business analysis in the IT field.
Speakers:
▪️ Dmytro Sobko, Senior BA at Uklon
▪️ Alyona Lubchak, Co-founder & trainer at E5
▪️ Denys Prylutskyi, Head of PMO at SoftServe
We will have a coffee break where you can talk to the speakers personally. After the speeches of all three IT Rally participants, there will be a panel discussion. Don’t forget to prepare your questions.
There will also be a charity auction where we will raffle off useful and interesting items to support the Mobile Frontline Hospital.
Discount: 10% with the code – Experts
Interfax-Ukraine is a media partner of the event.
