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CASE Policy Research Seminar - 23.03.2010
Teodoro Petkoff
Economic Problems of Venezuela under the Global Financial Crisis

CALL FOR PAPERS - 7th EUROFRAME Conference on Economic Policy Issues in the European Union:
After the crisis: Exit strategies for EU economies in a globalised world



Latest Publications

CASE Network E-Brief 03/2010: The price of delay: the future of Russian and Ukrainian pension systems

CASE Network E-Breif 02/2010:
Tax wedge, labor market and the shadow economy

CASE Networks Studies and Analyses No. 400:
Energy Security in the EU and Beyond   

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 399:
Agriculture Income Assessment for the Purpose of Social Assistance: the Case of Ukraine    

CASE Network E-briefs No. 01/2010:
The global recession and energy markets

CASE Network Report No. 90:
Social Security, Labour Market and Restructuring: Current Situation and Expected Outcomes of Reforms

CASE Network E-briefs 12/2009:
From fiscal stimulus to fiscal crisis

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 398:
Social Security Driven Tax Wedge and Its Effects On Employment and Shadow Employment

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 397:
Restructuring and Social Safety Nets in Russia and Ukraine - Socail Security Influence on Labor Mobility: Possible Opportunities and Challenges

CASE Network Report No. 89:
Economic Integration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 396:
Energy security, poverty and vulnerability in Central Asia and the wider European neighborhood

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 395:
The East European financial crisis

CASE Network E-briefs No.11/2009:
No, the central banks didn't do it

CASE Network Reports
No. 88

Deep Integrations with the EU and its Likely Impact on Selected ENP countries and Russia

PEO 3/2009
Large Fiscal Deficit in Poland - curse #1

CASE Network Studies and Analyses No. 394
Differentiation of Innovation Behavior of Manufacturing Firms in the New Member States. Cluster Analysis on Firm-Level Data


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2010-01-20


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The EU and CIS: deeper integration should be welcomed (2009-12-15)

The European Neighborhood Policy (ENP) was created with the aim of extending the area of prosperity, stability and security to the new EU neighbors following the EU Enlargement in 2004. The ENP applies to the immediate neighbors by land or sea: Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Egypt, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Libya, Moldova, Morocco, Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, Tunisia and Ukraine. The EU has developed a Strategic Partnership with Russia covering four “common spaces”. The central elements of the ENP are the bilateral Action Plans that set a clear agenda for harmonization of product standards and provide detailed provisions on customs, state aid and competition policy. The implementation of the ENP Action Plans is to lay grounds for the conclusion of deep and comprehensive Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) with the ENP partners, covering substantially all trade in goods and services and including legally-binding provisions on trade and economic regulatory issues.

The aim of the CASE study carried out by Maryla Maliszewska, Iryna Orlova and Svitalan Taran and published in CASE Network Report series is to estimate the likely impact of the institutional harmonization through the removal of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in trade with the EU in selected countries, namely Russia,  Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine. The study begins with a review of studies on deep integration and on the measurement of NTBs in Central and Eastern Europe and in CIS countries in the Chapter 2. Then the authors proceed with an overview of the progress in harmonization of product standards and reform of the conformity assessment infrastructure, customs and barriers to foreign provision of services in the CIS5 (Chapter 3). Finally, the report provides the estimates of the likely impact of FTAs between the EU and the CIS5, looking at a Simple FTA (tariff reductions) and a Deep FTA (significant reduction of NTBs and improvements in the business environment).

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