Armenia, Georgia, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have all experienced substantial out-migration of workers and an associated inflow of workers' remittances over the past two decades. These four countries have much higher human capital, as measured by the Human Capital Index, than is typical...

The European Union (EU)’s enlargements of 2004 and 2007 signified a project without precedent, the expansion to the East being a manifestation of the EU’s foreign policy. After gaining full membership, the new Central and Eastern European EU members also tried to shape the Union’s foreign...

Russia's migration growth has decreased. In 2018, it can amount to 120,000-130,000 persons to become the record-low one in the entire Post-Soviet period and will fail to make up for the natural decline in the population; reduction of the number of the population is expected to take place again

The purpose of this paper is to find factors which affect economic development in former Soviet Union countries and Central Eastern European countries. This paper uses cross-country data for 18 countries from 1999 to 2014. As a measure of development, GDP per capita has been taken, and the GDP...

We show that current differences in trust levels within former Soviet Union countries can be traced back to the system of forced prison labor during Stalin's rule, which was marked by high incarceration rates, repression, and harsh punishments. We argue that those exposed to forced labor camps...

We compare tax administration of large taxpayers in Croatia, the Czech Republic, Russia, Poland and Kazakhstan. Our hypothesis is that these units of tax administrations play an important role in collecting public revenue as well as preventing tax evasion in a dynamic global economy. We provide...

Gunnar Wiegand and Evelina Schulz have labelled the European Union (EU)'s trade facilitation efforts in the post-Soviet space as an integration ‘in a rough neighbourhood'. With this in consideration, our article looks at the impact of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) between...

This paper looks at how the Russian economy has developed under the leadership of Putin and how it spills over to its neighbours in the CIS region. It stresses the importance of international oil prices as a determinant of policies and outcomes in Russia and highlights how this has impacted...