The Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO) is an inter-governmental organization comprising Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey and several countries of the Commonwealth of Independent states (CIS) including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. The...

The aim of this paper is to describe the dynamics and structure of public external liabilities in Baltic countries: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and in selected countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Moldova, Russian Federation, Ukraine. The main finding...

Investigates how entrepreneurs in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine finance start-up and restructuring. Data from 600 de novo, privatised or state-owned firms shows the critical importance of the personal funds of the main owner(s), with a limited level of support being giving by the state.

This paper analyzes the direct and indirect income effects of international labor migration and remittances in selected CIS countries. The analysis is based on computable general equilibrium (CGE) models for Moldova, Ukraine, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Russia. All net emigration countries would...

The CIS countries' EU-related interests are very heterogeneous. The countries themselves differ not only in terms of their geopolitical and geo-economic situations, and how those affect their relations with the EU, but also in their levels of ambition in relation to the Union, as well as their...

The purpose of this paper is to measure and analyse how intensively CIS countries apply non-tariff barriers (NTBs) to restrict foreign trade in regard to certain products and total trade. Five CIS countries were selected for this analysis: Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Moldova, Belarus, and...

We investigate the likely sources of exchange rate dynamics in selected CIS countries (Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, and Moldova) over the past decade (1999-2008). The analysis is based on country VAR models augmented by a regional common factor structure (FAVAR model)....

В статье приведен анализ исследований о влиянии прямых иностранных инвестиций на экономический рост страны. Рассмотрено, каким образом прямые иностранные...

Analyzes the main reasons of informal employment at SMEs and looks for decisions to stimulate formal employment in the CIS countries.

Миграция населения рассматривается современными исследователями как средство, позволяющее перераспределять важнейший на сегодняшний день ресурс...