Disintegration trends observed for the last two decades in the CIS region are reversed, but there has been no qualitative breakthrough yet — EDB
St. Petersburg, 1 April 2014. Integration in the post-Soviet space progresses at an uneven pace in different domains, but the level of integration in the CIS has generally remained virtually unchanged for the last four years. That means that the permanent disintegration trend observed over two decades might have been reversed. At the same time, there has been no qualitative breakthrough yet. That is the conclusion reached by the Centre for Integration Studies of the Eurasian Development Bank, which has completed a new stage of its research project “System of Indicators of Eurasian Integration” (SIEI).
It is the major research project of the Centre designed to become the tool of on-going monitoring and assessment of the pattern and key vectors of Eurasian integration. SIEI is acknowledged as one of the three best systems for detailed regional integration analysis globally. The project is based on analysing official statistics of the CIS countries over the period of
The findings of the research show that, judging by the overall level of integration with all the post-Soviet countries, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia, and Tajikistan have been the three leaders since 2008. Tajikistan, however, although the country was in the lead over the period of
Based on indicators relative to the countries’ GDP and population size, the leaders in certain aspects of integration with the CIS region include Belarus (trade), Kyrgyzstan (power exchange), Tajikistan (labour migration and agriculture), and Turkmenistan (education).
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Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) 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. 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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The Centre for Integration Studies is a specialised analytical centre of Eurasian Development Bank. The Centre is charged with the task of organising research, preparing reports and recommendations on regional economic integration.
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