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.
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[email protected] ISBN 978-3-642-21092-1 e-ISBN 978-3-642-21093-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-21093-8 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011931674 # Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2011 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilm or in any other way, and storage in data banks. Duplication of this publication or parts thereof is permitted only under the provisions of the German Copyright Law of September 9, 1965, in its current version, and permission for use must always be obtained from Springer. Violations are liable to prosecution under the German Copyright Law. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com) Preface This volume contains a selection of research output from the Specific Targeted Research Project (STREP) on ‘EU Eastern Neighborhood: Economic Potential and Future Development (ENEPO),’ which was funded under the EU Sixth Framework Program, Priority 7 ‘Citizens and Governance in a Knowledge Based Society’, Contract No 028736 (CIT5). The main objective of the ENEPO project was to examine the potential of the ENP and the EU strategic partnership with Russia to upgrade relations between the enlarged EU and CIS countries in the spheres of trade, investment, labor movement, technical cooperation, and economic and governance reforms in the CIS, with special attention given to mutual interdependence among these cooperation areas. In this volume we use the term ‘Commonwealth of Independent States’ and its abbreviation, CIS, purely for analytical convenience in order to define the group of 12 successor countries of th