Economic performance, social progress and institutional reform in European neighbouring countries

López-Tamayo, Jordi; Ramos, Raúl; Suriñach, Jordi

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“…Accordingly, the quality of institutions stimulated by the EU's complex free trade agreements has positively affected trade in the EaP countries. This is also the view of López-Tamayo et al (2018), who admit the validity of the bilateral action plans and the positive effects of convergence with the EU in terms of enhancing the catch-up among the ENP countries. Our article builds on these findings and holds that the EU has had a significant impact on the EaP economies.…”

Section: Empirical Evidence On Convergence and Grow Th In Post-soviet Countriesmentioning

confidence: 72%

“…Provided the EaP and the CA countries were displaying a similar progress in reforms before the ENP creation (2.44 was the average transition score for the EaP countries during the first period, as compared to 2.31 within the CA), the difference grew after the ENP enforcement (3.06 within the EaP group, compared to 2.65 within the CA). Similarly, other studies also recognize the positive effects the ENP has had on the eastern neighbours, where the EU through its neighbourhood frameworks has managed to partially stimulate structural reforms and macro-policies, and also lifted trade barriers with the EaP states (López-Tamayo et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Finally, in order to account for the enforcement of the bilateral action plans after the ENP was launched, a dummy variable was computed, similar to that used by López-Tamayo et al (2018). This variable takes the value 1, since the action plan was ratified by each of the EaP member states.…”

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Growth and convergence in Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries since the dissolution of the USSR—embarking on different development paths?

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Sharipov

Pascariu

et al. 2021

Development Policy Review

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Background: Since the dissolution of the USSR, the former Soviet countries not included in the enlargement of the European Union (EU) have experienced divergent development. While the so-called Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries established closer ties with the EU, the Central Asian (CA) states mostly gravitated towards Russia and China. Thus, despite belonging to a similar economic and political system, the two groups of countries pursued transition to a market-oriented economy and fostering development with varying results, creating a neat contrast to facilitate the study of patterns of growth and disparity. Purpose: Based on an analysis covering more than two decades, the article explores the growth paths of the EaP and CA countries. Given their bumpy economic performances, the article aims, first, to show how these affected economic disparities among them. Second, it aims to identify the factors which most influenced different development trajectories. Approach and methods: Through analysis of panel data, the article seeks to explain long-term economic growth in terms of endowments of production factors, macroeconomic stabilization and transition reforms, external conditions and institutional development. Sources of growth are identified to reveal how they affected income per capita and shaped convergence in the two groups of countries. Findings: The EaP and CA countries show different growth patterns since the end of communism. While the EaP economies shrank more during the 1990s compared to the CA group, they bounced back faster during the 2000s. The EaP economies, being more closely connected to the EU, were more affected by the Great Recession of 2007-2009 than those of the CA. Overall, economic disparities between these sets of countries have slightly increased. Physical capital, foreign direct investment, natural resources, openness to trade and the transition reforms significantly explain economic 2 of 30 | INCALTARAU eT AL. | INTRODUCTIONAfter the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the post-Soviet countries not included in the enlargement of the European Union (EU) have experienced different regional contexts of transition and development. While the Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries established closer ties with the EU, 1 the Central Asian (CA) states mostly gravitated around Russia and China. 2 The two groups of countries share some common in-group features which have distinguished themselves from other parts of the former Soviet Union, but, at the same time, they have displayed contrasting evolutions, depending on the regional context in which they are located.On the one hand, the five CA republics have inherited a landlocked geographic location, at the heart of Eurasia, in the proximity of such regional powers as Russia and China. In general, the Soviet experience has largely shaped the CA countries. First, under the USSR, CA started a long journey to statehood which is nowadays closely connected to an unresolved debate, namely whether the Soviet transformation of CA was a neocolonial or a modern...

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Section: Empirical Evidence On Convergence and Grow Th In Post-soviet Countriesmentioning

confidence: 72%

Section: Conflictsmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Growth and convergence in Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries since the dissolution of the USSR—embarking on different development paths?

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“…The latter is also an issue for institutional research as evidenced by Schulz and Konig (2000) who found that institutional reform had a substantial impact on decision-making efficiency in terms of proposal-decision lag reduction. Several more instances of the post-integration Europe"s institutionalism described in Lopez-Tamayo, Ramos, and Surinach i Caralt (2018).…”

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Meta-institutions as a Product of Institutional Dynamics and Institutional Reformation

Polyakova

Nesterenko

Sverdlikova

2019

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Institutions keep on rising in their role in the process of regulating the conflicts, that are attributes to market-type economic systems. The analysis of recent papers demonstrates an active shift towards institutional models that are able to explain the vector of transformations; reformation is related to changes in institutional environment via modeling the parameters of different agents" behavior. The article searches into the evolution of institutions as a reflection for socioeconomic space components change. The emphasis is made on sophistication of spatial organization and strengthening of its network-based character, as well as the necessity of institutions modernization and creation of "new age" institutions in order to make the environment match the society requirements and demands. The research of known institutions typologies allowed to determine that sophistication of economic activities leads to meta-institutions creation. Development of the latter can be facilitated by cloud technologies that offer aggregated data storage and processing separately from any structural unit.

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“…The objective of the article by López-Tamayo et al (2016) is to analyse the recent evolution of the ENC by looking at GDP growth and also by considering different dimensions related to economic performance in a broader sense, particularly social progress and institutional reforms. The ENC performance along these different dimensions is compared with that experienced by a wide sample of economies including developed, developing, and emerging economies.…”

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Innovative potential for development of Europe’s neighbouring countries and regions

Bergman

Varga

2017

Ann Reg Sci

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The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is intended to promote development in bordering states and regions positioned along a broad arc from Morocco to Ukraine to become more friendly, stable, and prosperous. The policy offers limited but attractive terms of association with selected non-EU members concerning trade, mobility, innovation, and assistance in exchange for the adoption of important Western features that comprise the Community Acquis. The theme of this special issue hews closely to the economic development goals of the ENP by examining forces and factors that underlie the ability of neighbouring regions and countries to acquire and exploit innovative technologies, which are seen as the key element of a successful ENP.This special issue attempts to illuminate key innovative factors that underlie the fragile but important relationships between Europe and its immediate regional neighbours during the EU post-accession period. These relationships have been systematically cultivated since 2004 under the auspices of what has become known as the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP), which is intended to promote development in bordering states and regions positioned along a broad arc from Morocco to Ukraine to become more friendly, stable and prosperous. The policy offers limited but attractive terms of association with selected non-EU members concerning trade, mobility, innovation, and assistance in exchange for the adoption of important western features that comprise the Community Acquis. In short, limited integration and privileged advantages are offered in exchange for becoming more like their Western neighbours. A negotiated quid pro quo is set in motion with the signing of an EU Association Agreement that lays

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Economic performance, social progress and institutional reform in European neighbouring countries

Cited by 4 publications

References 21 publications

Growth and convergence in Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries since the dissolution of the USSR—embarking on different development paths?

Growth and convergence in Eastern Partnership and Central Asian countries since the dissolution of the USSR—embarking on different development paths?

Meta-institutions as a Product of Institutional Dynamics and Institutional Reformation

Innovative potential for development of Europe’s neighbouring countries and regions

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