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This paper discusses key findings of the pilot Fiscal Transparency Evaluation for the Russian Federation. Most aspects of Russia’s fiscal reporting and budgeting practices are in line with good or advanced practice under the July 2013 draft of the Fiscal Transparency Code. The disclosure and...
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This report on the Russian Federation’s Observance of Standards and Codes reports on the fiscal transparency module. Russia has achieved considerable progress in fiscal transparency and financial management since 1999, although a number of important reforms remain to be undertaken. The legal...
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transiting countries, namely Ukraine and Belarus. The development of a new transit corridor through Belarus (the Yamal …-Europe pipeline), depriving Ukraine of its former monopoly, has modified the situation profoundly. The thrust of the paper is an … analysis of nthe strategies that Ukraine and Belarus may pursue in transiting Russian gas: non-cooperative duopoly, cooperative …
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supplies through the Ukraine Corridor, with a particular focus on Bulgaria and on EU policy. The second paper provides an … analysis of the current state of gas relations between Ukraine and the Russian Federation, with a focus on the Ukrainian …
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This report analyses the political risks of Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine from a foreign firm's point of view … Ukraine is unfavourable to foreign investment but not to the extent that it would prevent or seriously restrict the … problematic situation. All in all, political risk remains elevated in Belarus, Moldova, Russia and Ukraine. …
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We evaluate the effects of potential measures to liberalize trade between the EU and the CIS using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model. We look At the CIS as an aggregate and we also present results for individual CIS countries Our CGE model takes different underlying industry specific...
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Ukraine. The pension systems and their reforms in both countries are compared. They are also compared with the general picture …
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The events in Ukraine are in the thick of actuality, at the crossroads of East and West. From a buffer zone it has … analyse what will happen in Ukraine and with the actors involved, in general. There are several possible scenarios, among … which: the success of the elections and the stabilization of Ukraine in integrum; the federation, with the preservation of …
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For years Ukraine tried to balance between the EU and Russia. The strategy proved to be inefficient due to the fact … that Ukraine did not hold the required leverage for this kind of strategy and the consequence was observed in the current … certain point the events from Ukraine were viewed as a new type of war in terms of tactics. The present article aims to …
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Ukraine in the context of DCFTA’s implementation. We are interested to encounter the point of contact and the interference … areas to which Ukraine is referring to secure its balance, considering that its economy and market are traditionally … trade relations between Ukraine and Russia, and that, precisely, the hostile actions of Russia against the DCFTA has …
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