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The EU transfers provided to the New Member States and candidate countries are generally viewed as having been efficiently used in promoting development in these economies. This paper examines the conditionality and institutional arrangements used to manage these transfers, and asks if there are...
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and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) between the EU and Moldova on the development of the latter in a broader context … Association Agreement with Moldova. Our analysis of the implementation of Moldova's economic integration into the EU market … highlights not only positive but also several negative trends of this process. Namely, in the shorter term, Moldova's economic …
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The imbalance between the costs and benefits of DCFTAs is a call to the EU to display greater thoughtfulness and pragmatism if it does not want to lose support for reforms in its neighbourhood. What has to happen so that their potential can be more beneficial? The Policy Brief written by Amat...
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Now that the European Council has given the green light to opening EU accession negotiations with Ukraine and Moldova … Balkan countries, the third enlargement area is formed by Ukraine, Moldova and Georgia in Eastern Europe. Ever since Russia …
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This report analyzes the specific factors that affect the competitiveness of developing countries in global value chains (GVCs), and how these factors differ across four major economic sectors: agriculture, extractive industries, manufacturing and offshore services. Although integration into...
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This paper explores income and consumption smoothing patterns among ECOWAS countries during the period 1980-2016.It is relevant given the willingness of heads of state in the region to create a single currency. Indeed, in a monetary union, asymmetric shocks are not problematic if risk-sharing...
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