Director of the EDB Centre for Integration Studies has presented to the expert community the findings of his research

Almaty, 27 February 2013. At the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies, Evgeny Vinokurov, Director of the Centre for Integration Studies of the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB), made today a presentation of the monograph Evraziyskaya kontinentalnaya integraciya (Eurasian Continental Integration). He co-authored this research paper with Alexander Libman, Assistant Professor of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management and member of the Academic Council of the EDB Centre for Integration Studies.

The presentation was attended by Kazakhstan’s experts specialized in studying integration developments in the CIS region, economic analysts, as well as students of Almaty universities and journalists.

The monograph is devoted to the integration process unfolding throughout the Eurasian continent. Its specific feature is the continental approach to the subject based on the analysis of economic and political ties in Eurasia — still very much in the process of emerging and not yet explored in the framework of in-depth analysis. The paper focuses on economic ties at the subnational, national, and transnational levels. Interestingly, the paper encompasses not just the «bright side» of the integration (growing flows of goods, services, capital, and labor), but also its «dark side» (drug, human, and arms trafficking, cross-border environmental and epidemiological threats). The latter will require coordinated international efforts in order to mount an effective response.

In the well-established analysis presented by the authors, the Eurasian continental integration is poised to emerge as a key development force driven by integration in the area of trade in energy and other commodities, transportation sector, capital and labor flows, and counteraction to numerous cross-border threats.

The monograph is one of the results of the work conducted by the EDB Centre for Integration Studies founded in 2011. The Centre has been tasked with organizing research work, as well as drafting recommendations for the governments of EDB member states, and preparing reports on the multiple issues of regional economic integration.

The monograph Evraziyskaya kontinentalnaya integraciya (Eurasian Continental Integration) was published in the autumn of last year. Its electronic version and supporting materials are available at the EDB’s website under the heading «Centre for Integration Studies» (https://eabr.org/r/research/centre/monographs/).

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The Eurasian Development Bank is an international financial institution founded by Russia and Kazakhstan in January 2006 with the mission to facilitate the development of market economies, sustainable economic growth, and the expansion of mutual trade and other economic ties in its member states. The EDB’s charter capital exceeds US $1.5 billion. The member states of the Bank are the Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and the Republic of Tajikistan.

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