EU Eastern Neighborhood: Economic Potential and Future Development

✍ Scribed by Irina Sinitsina (auth.), Marek Dabrowski, Maryla Maliszewska (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 221
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The selected papers in this volume were prepared under the research project on “EU Eastern Neighborhood: Economic Potential and Future Development (ENEPO)” funded by the EU Sixth Framework Program. They discuss the broad spectrum of development issues in the EU Eastern Neighborhood and economic relations between the enlarged EU and its Eastern neighbors in the former USSR. Individual chapters address areas of economic and social development, trade, energy, investment, migration, costs and benefits of economic reforms, development assistance and political economy of policy reforms. In particular, they examine interrelations and mutual synergies between trade liberalization, inflow of foreign investment, economic and institutional reforms and a reduction of income and development disparities. The publication thus closes an important knowledge gap in respect to the economic, social and institutional development of the CIS region and its economic relations with the EU.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
The Development Gap Between the CIS and EU....Pages 1-21
East–West Integration: A Geographical Economics Approach....Pages 23-44
Deep Integration with the EU: Impact on Selected ENP Countries and Russia....Pages 45-59
Energizing EU-FSU Relations: Challenges and Opportunities....Pages 61-69
The Motives and Impediments to FDI in the CIS....Pages 71-82
Global Ageing and the Macroeconomic Consequences of Migration from Neighborhood Countries to Europe....Pages 83-100
Income and Distribution Effects of Migration and Remittances....Pages 101-121
Institutional Convergence of the CIS Towards European Benchmarks....Pages 123-143
Institutional Harmonization in the Context of EU Cooperation with its Neighbors....Pages 145-156
Technical Assistance to CIS Countries....Pages 157-171
European Neighborhood Policy and Economic Reforms in the Eastern Neighborhood....Pages 173-183
Economic Relations Between the EU and CIS....Pages 185-200

✦ Subjects

European Integration; Economic Policy; Economic Systems; Development Economics; International Economics; Migration