States (NIS), focusing on the new EU member states (NMS) and selected NIS (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Kazakhstan …

A functioning Belarus-Russia-Kazakhstan Customs Union (BRK-CU) would comprise the bulk of the FSU economy and represent … indicate that during the period 1999-2009 liberalization took place primarily in the trade of Belarus, Russia, Kazakhstan and … CET adoption, the average (un-weighted) level of protection declined by about 2 p.p. in Russia and 1.3 p.p. in Belarus …

Twenty-five years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Belarus stands out as a special case in transition … surface, and its subsequent monetisation provoked macroeconomic and currency turmoil. At present, Belarus' economic model has …

countries (Belarus, Kazakhstan and Russia) as well as DCFTA countries (Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) with selected EU-CEE peers …

The policy brief presents a review of potential effects of parametric pension reform in Belarus starting in 2017 for … fact that raising the retirement age is overdue in Belarus to address demographic challenges, it may have a negative impact … labor market in Belarus. The paper presents a set of public policy improvement directions in Belarus, which could help …

This paper examines the sources of Belarus’s export growth and decomposes export growth into extensive and intensive … decomposing export growth, the count method and the export shares method. We analyse Belarus's export growth using export data at … the HS-6 digit level for the 2004-2014 period. Our results show that Belarus's exports grew mainly due to growth in the …

Belarus currently has a relatively generous pay-as-you-go pension system, but population aging coupled with recent …

The study assesses the macro-financial situation of Belarus. It analyses the Belarus financial sector, with a specific …In dieser Studie wird die gesamtwirtschaftliche Lage in Belarus behandelt. Der belarussische Finanzsektor wird …

This paper uncovers evidence on the distribution of wages in Belarus in the second half of the 1990s. The returns to …

The gradualist approach to economic transition in Belarus would contribute to form the a priori expectation that the …