EDB experts to speak on Eurasian integration at the Higher School of Economics's Annual Conference
Moscow 3 April 2012. The Eurasian Development Bank’s (EDB) Centre for Integration Studies will host a section on the Eurasian Integration at the Thirteenth International Conference of the Higher School of Economics, which opened today in Moscow. The Conference is supported by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). Analysts from the Research Department and EurAsEC Anti-Crisis Fund Management Team will also represent the EDB at the Conference.
The Eurasian Integration Section will discuss a wide
spectrum of issues concerning integration processes in the Common Economic
Space, including the political economy of integration, the establishment
of a common market in goods and services and the advancement of labour mobility
in the region. In focus will also be both short- and long-term trade,
structural and institutional effects of integration,
In addition, the Section will discuss wider integration processes in the whole of Eurasia, a notion encompassing the Western Europe, the Commonwealth of Independent States (Northern and Central Eurasia) and East Asia. Experts will provide a systematic view on Eurasian continental integration.
«Eurasian integration could become a key driving force in advancing trade in raw materials and industrial goods; transportation; capital and labour flows; tourism; social and cultural cooperation; and consolidating efforts against drug trafficking and natural and epidemiological threats,» said Evgeny Vinokurov, Director of the Centre for Integration Studies. «Open regionalism in Eurasia and close cooperation between countries and blocs can be considered an optimal economic complement to the regional integration initiatives, and post-Soviet integration in particular.»
Additional Information
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 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. Read more at https://www.eabr.org.