This study is part of the project entitled "Costs and Benefits of Labour Mobility between the EU and the Eastern Partnership Countries" for the European Commission1. The study was written by Luca Barbone (CASE) Mikhail Bonch- Osmolovskiy (CASE) and Matthias Luecke (Kiel). It is based on the six...

Ukraine is a migration-intensive country, with an estimated 1.5-2 million labour migrants (about 5% of the working-age population). Slightly over a half of these migrants travel for work to the EU. This study discusses the impact of this large pool of migrants on both the sending and receiving...

The EU has been one of the largest trade partners for so called Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries, namely Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine. Commodity turnover of these countries with the EU vary between 30% and 50% of total, but their access to the EU market is less...

The global food price shock of 2006-2008 has particularly affected poorer strata of populations in several developing countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and...

In this paper we present the macroeconomic model elaborated by the Modeling Group of the International Center for Policy Studies. This paper includes the theoretical background as well as a detailed explanation of the two parts of the model: forecasting of nominal GDP and inflation and...

This paper explores the methods that the Ukrainian government (supported by international technical assistance providers) is developing to minimize the probability of a damaging, systemic banking crisis. The contention is that with highly lucrative existing sources of income for banks receding...

After hyperinflationary developments in 1993 the inflation rate was controlled and decreased to the level of about 10% in 1997 and 20% in 1998. Inflationary consequences of 1998 crisis were lower that one could expect. It proves the thesis about proper crisis management in Ukraine. Inflationary...

This paper recounts and analyzes privatization in Ukraine from 1990 to 1995 in light of the lessons learned by East European countries and Russia. Part I of this paper recounts the experience of privatization in Ukraine from the beginning until late 1995. Part II of the paper presents an...

Banking services, during Soviet times were primarily provided by a government dominated bureaucracy that processed documentation. Bank personnel were used to provide financial accounting records on credits obtained by entities for projects approved under five year plans. The banks' activities...

This paper provides the results of analyses of key problems related to pension systems and their reforms in Russia and Ukraine. The pension systems and their reforms in both countries are compared. They are also compared with the general picture observed in the OECD or selected countries...