Late To The Game Capital Flows To The Western Balkans

Author : Zsoka Koczan
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 26 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781475593501

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Late to the game? Capital flows to the Western Balkans by Zsoka Koczan Pdf

The boom and bust in capital flows to the New Member States of the European Union have received a considerable amount of attention; foreign direct investment and bank flows to the region and countries’ participation in regional supply chains have been well-documented. Relatively little has, however, been written about capital flows to the Western Balkans economies, which are often perceived to be ‘late arrivals’ to large capital flows. This paper aims to examine how capital flows to the Western Balkans compare with flows to the New Member States, in terms of levels as well as dynamics. We find that while financial integration took off somewhat later in the Western Balkans than in the New Member States, it has increased rapidly, despite still much lower capital account openness. Capital inflows as a share of GDP are comparable to those observed in the New Member States, (perhaps surprisingly) diverse in terms of source countries and broadly similar in composition, though with equity shares higher than they were in the New Member States at comparable levels of GDP per capita.

Author : Marco Zoppi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030896287

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Futures of the Western Balkans by Marco Zoppi Pdf

This Brief provides a survey of key political, social, and economic issues affecting the Western Balkans region. Taking a two-pronged conceptual approach focusing on fragmentation and integration, the volume highlights commonalities and differences in a number of simultaneous dynamics currently characterizing the region: Europeanization and EU access, market integration, and migration and socio-demographic transformations. Stressing the interconnectedness of these issues, the volume synthesizes key questions for the future of the region, such as the relationship between socio-demographic trends and economic development, the effects of depopulation on further EU integration, and the economic and political repercussions of enhanced intra-regional trade. Explicitly interdisciplinary, this Brief will be useful for researchers and students specializing in the Balkans and Western Balkans, post-socialist countries, European affairs, enlargement, foreign policy, international relations, regional studies, economics, economic transition, and socio-demographics.

Author : Dušan I. Bjelić
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429595295

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Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe by Dušan I. Bjelić Pdf

Offering a fresh look at the ways in which neoliberalism has claimed to cure the Balkan region of its ethnic particularities under the pretext of Europeanization, this book shows how the reconfiguration of the economic, political, and cultural landscape of the region has resulted in its functioning as Europe’s neocolony. The contributors to this volume engage in postcolonial analysis of the Balkans’ past and present coloniality by way of interrogating race, racism, trauma, film, and global capitalism. They challenge the idea of a United Europe that rests on the assumption that the European Union’s ‘newness’ represents both a clean slate and the right to shift ownership of its colonial histories to former colonial subjects and their national histories. Taken as a whole, the volume seeks to transform Europe’s colonial amnesia into postcolonial awareness and to speak from within the Balkans as a site of Europe’s neocolony. As it critically interrogates a neocolonial reconfiguration of the Balkans as a massive social overhaul, which includes at once global integration and local social disintegration, this book will be of interest to those studying the region, as well as postcolonialism in general. This book was originally published as a special issue of Interventions: Journal of Postcolonial Studies.

Author : International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 19 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-08-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484315446

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IMF Research Bulletin, Summer 2017 by International Monetary Fund. Research Dept. Pdf

The Summer 2017 issue of the IMF Research Bulletin highlights new research such as recent IMF Working Papers and Staff Discussion Notes. The Research Summaries are “Structural Reform Packages, Sequencing, and the Informal Economy (by Zsuzsa Munkacsi and Magnus Saxegaard) and “A Broken Social Contract, Not High Inequality Led to the Arab Spring” (by Shantayanan Devarajan and Elena Ianchovichina). The Q&A section features “Seven Questions on Fintech” (by Tommaso Mancini-Griffoli). The Bulletin also includes information on recommended titles from IMF Publications and the latest articles from the IMF Economic Review.

Author : La-Bhus Fah Jirasavetakul,Jesmin Rahman
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781484373323

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Foreign Direct Investment in New Member State of the EU and Western Balkans: Taking Stock and Assessing Prospects by La-Bhus Fah Jirasavetakul,Jesmin Rahman Pdf

FDI has played a strong role in the export-led growth of eastern European countries that are now members of the European Union (EU). Largely sourced from advanced Europe, FDI inflows were motivated by the intention to pursue new markets and cost efficiency. Over time, foreign investment has restructured the exports sector in these countries in favor of products that are considered more technology-intensive. As these countries face skills shortage and rising wages, what is needed for FDI to continue playing a strong role? Can the Western Balkan countries, who are not yet EU members and have in recent years stepped up financial incentives and policy initiatives to court investors, emulate the experience? This paper takes stock of the FDI experience of both these groups and tries to estimate their potential gains from additional policy efforts.

Author : Marko Čeperković,Florence Gaub
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9291987514

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Balkan Futures - Three Scenarios for 2025 by Marko Čeperković,Florence Gaub Pdf

What will the Western Balkans look like in 2025? Will we witness Republika Srpska declare independence, a worsening of relations between Kosovo* and Serbia, and the rise of ethnic tensions across the region - or will we celebrate Montenegro and Serbia joining the EU, with good reason to hope that the rest of the region will soon follow? This Chaillot Paper presents three contrasting scenarios for the horizon of 2025 - best-case, medium-case, and worst-case. Each scenario takes account of the impact of underlying megatrends (trends that are unlikely to change by 2025) on the future trajectory of the region: the scenarios do not just spell out what 2025 could look like, they also explain how decisions with far-reaching consequences taken at critical junctures (called game-changers) will shape this future between today and then. They therefore serve not merely as a description, but also as a roadmap outlining the different options available

Author : Morton Abramowitz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Balkan Peninsula
ISBN : OSU:32435083756148

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The Western Balkans and the EU by Morton Abramowitz Pdf

Today, more than fifteen years after the end of the wars that accompanied Yugoslavia's dissolution, the "Balkan question" remains more than ever a "European question". In the eyes of many Europeans in the 1990s, Bosnia was the symbol of a collective failure, while Kosovo later became a catalyst for an emerging Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). In the last decade, however, the overall thrust of the EU's Balkans policy has moved from an agenda dominated by security issues related to the war and its legacies to one focused on the perspective of the Western Balkan states' accession to the European Union. This Chaillot Paper, which features contributions from authors from various parts of the region, examines the current state of play in the countries of the Western Balkans with regard to EU accession. It brings together both views from the Balkans states themselves and overarching thematic perspectives. For the first time the European Union has become involved in the formation of new nation-states that also aspire to become members of the Union. The EU's transformative power has proved effective in integrating established states; now it is confronted with the challenge of integrating new and sometimes contested states. Against this background, this paper makes the case for a concerted regional approach to EU enlargement, and a renewed and sustained commitment to the European integration of the Western Balkans.

Author : Janusz Bugajski
Publisher : CSIS
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780892066025

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Western Balkans Policy Review 2010 by Janusz Bugajski Pdf

A report of the CSIS Lavrentis Lavrentiadis Chair in Southeast European Studies.

Author : Hilary Appel,Mitchell A. Orenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108422291

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From Triumph to Crisis by Hilary Appel,Mitchell A. Orenstein Pdf

Explains the surprising endurance of neoliberal policymaking over two decades in post-Communist countries, from 1989-2008, and its decline after the financial crash.

Author : Murat Birdal
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857718150

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The Political Economy of Ottoman Public Debt by Murat Birdal Pdf

In the midst of political decline and burgeoning financial problems in the late nineteenth century, the Ottoman Empire became embroiled in a borrowing frenzy, which eventually resulted in the financial collapse of the empire. Under political pressure and with the growing need for external funds, the Ottoman court compromised its fiscal sovereignty by ceding the most liquid revenue sources to a financial administration controlled by European creditors. In this book, Murat Birdal sheds light on the handling of the external debt crisis, one of the most controversial periods of Ottoman economic history. Based on extensive archival research foreign archives, he explores the pivotal role of the Ottoman Public Debt Administration (OPDA) in the peripheralization of the Ottoman economy. This book will be invaluable to scholars of Ottoman, Middle East and economic history.

Author : Carlo Altomonte,Antonio Villafranca
Publisher : Ledizioni
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9788855261586

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Europe in Identity Crisis by Carlo Altomonte,Antonio Villafranca Pdf

Today’s European Union is in an identity crisis as it seems to be losing its points of reference. The principles that upheld its creation are being increasingly questioned around the world and within the EU itself. Its chances to survive hinge upon its ability to deliver at home and abroad,without abandoning its values and principles but rather adapting and re-launching them.This volume offers policy options on key questions for the future of the EU: How to scale-up its role abroad? How to benefit from new partners without severing ties with traditional allies such as the US? How to contain Eurosceptic forces by reducing inequalities? And how to reinforce the euro while aiming at more sustainable and balanced growth?

Author : John Atkinson Hobson
Publisher : Spokesman Books
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : UOM:49015000434994

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Imperialism by John Atkinson Hobson Pdf

Author : Dimitar Bechev
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300219135

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Rival Power by Dimitar Bechev Pdf

A nuanced and comprehensive study of the political dynamics between Russia and key countries in Southeast Europe Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades' of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West say, "yes." With rising global anxiety over Russia's political policies and objectives, Dimitar Bechev provides the only in-depth look at this volatile region. Deftly unpacking the nature and extent of Russian influence in the Balkans, Greece, and Turkey, Bechev argues that both sides are driven by pragmatism and opportunism rather than historical loyalties. Russia is seeking to assert its role in Europe's security architecture, establish alternative routes for its gas exports--including the contested Southern Gas Corridor--and score points against the West. Yet, leaders in these areas are allowing Russia to reinsert itself to serve their own goals. This urgently needed guide analyzes the responses of regional NATO members, particularly regarding the annexation of Crimea and the Putin-Erdogan rift over Syria.

Author : Pascal Fontaine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9279715623

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Europe in 12 Lessons by Pascal Fontaine Pdf

What purpose does the EU serve? Why and how was it set up? How does it work? What has it already achieved for its citizens, and what new challenges does it face today? In a globalised world, can the EU compete successfully with other major economies while maintaining its social standards? How can immigration be managed? What will Europe’s role be on the world stage in the years ahead? Where will the EU’s boundaries be drawn? And what future is there for the euro? These are just some of the questions explored by EU expert Pascal Fontaine in this 2017 edition of his popular booklet Europe in 12 lessons. Pascal Fontaine is a former assistant to Jean Monnet and former professor at the Institut d’Études Politiques, Paris.

Author : George E. Blau
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : IND:39000003543241

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The German Campaign in Russia by George E. Blau Pdf