Within a single generation, the post-Soviet political, economic, and social landscape has changed immensely. The new structures — ranging from national power structures to a completely new economic reality based on the market instead of centralized planning — have come into existence. As 20...

By publishing this first Report on the System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration (SIEI), we hope to lay the foundations of a new long-term project. It is expected that from now on the EDB will collect data and calculate the indicators on an annual basis. The respective reports will be made...

The paper compares the development of two institutional systems organizing the intergovernmental relations in the former Soviet Union: Russian federalism and post-Soviet regional integration. In spite of common origins, random selections of actors and common development trends in the first...

The paper considers the interaction of regional economic integration within the post-Soviet space and integration projects in Asia. It provides a detailed account of existing structures and institutions, looks at possible complementarities and substitute relations between these two groups of...

The paper discusses the influence of processes of regional economic integration on the interaction of the government and private agents. It shows that specifics of the integration model influences the transformation of government-business relations by intensifying the interjurisdictional...

The paper considers the problem of the integration of markets in Central Asia as a main factor of economic modernization. It first identifies the potential channels of reduction of transaction costs barriers between countries (“models of integration”). Second, it looks at the emergence of...

The search for an optimal model of regional economic integration remains one of the key problems for economic policy and theoretical research. This paper attempts to study the factors of developemnt and comparative efficiency of regional integration model, and takes into account the asymmetry of...

The paper provides a summary of the main conclusion of the EDB System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration, supplemented by an analysis of potential developments in the post-Soviet space.

Using a brand new comprehensive dataset, provided by the Eurasian Development Bank, the paper elaborates on the state of regional integration in Central Asia. We find that although the economic links between the Central Asian countries are more pronounced than between that of the CIS in several...

While the regional economic integration in the former Soviet Union turns out to be highly inefficient, there appears to be a stronger interest to the regionalism in smaller groups of more homogenous and geographically connected countries of the region, specifically, Central Asia. This paper...