Description du projet
Étudier les obstacles à l’investissement étranger dans les anciennes républiques soviétiques
Ces dix dernières années, les relations diplomatiques et économiques se sont améliorées entre l’UE et plusieurs anciennes républiques soviétiques comme l’Azerbaïdjan, le Kazakhstan et l’Ouzbékistan. La libéralisation du régime des visas et les réformes fiscales économiques ont ouvert la voie aux investissements étrangers. Cependant, les investissements étrangers n’ont pas répondu aux attentes initiales, en grande partie à cause des obstacles informels qui restent sous‑étudiés et peu signalés. Le projet MARKETS, financé par l’UE, étudiera l’influence des facteurs formels et informels qui ont un impact sur l’investissement étranger dans les anciennes républiques soviétiques. Le projet étudiera deux pays par sous‑région, en particulier les pays baltes, l’Europe de l’Est, le Caucase et l’Asie centrale. Il bâtira une carte des environnements commerciaux de la région étudiée et développera et améliorera des programmes de formation durables pour les futurs analystes, en leur fournissant une compréhension pratique essentielle de la région.
Objectif
In the past ten years, diplomatic and economic relations between the EU and a number of post-USSR republics have steadily improved. Initially concerned primarily with internal political stability, countries like Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan or Uzbekistan have since come to realize that availability of oil, gas and minerals is not a guarantee for a stable and shock-resistant economic environment. Efforts to diversify domestic economies and to attract foreign investments have multiplied in the past years in the region, through initiates that include visa liberalization and economic and fiscal reforms aimed at reducing barriers to entry for foreign business seeking access to domestic markets. The response from the international business community to these efforts have been modest to date. While a number of corporate entities have tried to enter new markets, the attractiveness of such newly opened republics remain limited, in large part due to informal barriers to foreign investment. Such informal obstacles and hindrances remain largely under-reported and under-studied, contributing to a more general lack of understanding of local business environments that is exacerbated by a dearth of regional specialists who can understand and navigate the micro and macro socio-political economies of post-USSR markets. MARKETS responds to novel opportunities emerging in post-Soviet spaces by conducting a study on the influence of both formal and informal factors impacting on access to markets in eight countries in the post-USSR, including two countries per sub-region (Baltics, Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia) to 1) construct a map of business environments in the region based; 2) create, develop and improve the sustainability of training programmes for future analysts to equip them with deep practical understandings of the region, embedded in the newest theoretical and methodological approaches
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MSCA-ITN - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Networks (ITN)Coordinateur
9 Dublin
Irlande