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MARKETS · Mapping Uncertainties, Challenges and Future Opportunities of Emerging Markets: Informal Barriers, Business Environments and Future Trends in Eastern Europe, The Caucasus and Central Asia

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период
2020-08-01 → 2025-04-30
Финансиране от ЕС
3 925 791 €
Участници
9
Схема
MSCA-ITN

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Неформалните бизнес практики и социалните договорености, които не се регулират от държавата, се анализират в Източна Европа, Кавказ и Централна Азия. Разбирането им помага за по-доброто планиране на икономическите отношения и политиките на Европейския съюз с тези региони.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

Резултати накратко

Mapping Uncertainties, Challenges and Future Opportunities of Emerging Markets: Informal Barriers, Business Environments and Future Trends in Eastern Europe, The Caucasus and Central Asia

The MARKETS project (“Mapping Uncertainties, Challenges and Future Opportunities of Emerging Markets”) addressed the urgent need to understand how informality shapes governance, economic behaviour, and resilience in the EU’s eastern neighbourhood and Central Asia. Informal practices—economic activities and social arrangements not fully captured by state regulation—are critical to everyday survival and business strategies in these regions, yet remain poorly understood and often mischaracterised as simply “shadow” or “illegal” activities. The relevance of this agenda grew sharply during the project due to global disruptions: the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, which both reconfigured informal practices and highlighted their role in adaptation, inequality, and resilience. For the EU, better understanding informality is central to policy design, external action, and economic relations with neighbouring regions. Overall objectives were to: Collect original empirical data on informality practices and their interaction with governance, business models, and entrepreneurial strategies. Generate strategic intelligence for economic and policy actors at macro and micro levels. Advance theory on informality in global debates by producing cutting-edge, interdisciplinary doctoral research. Deliver actionable recommendations to policymakers and businesses on navigating reforms and local business environments. Through 15 doctoral projects across diverse disciplines and sectors, MARKETS built new knowledge, trained a cohort of highly skilled researchers, and delivered policy-relevant outputs to EU and international stakeholders.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

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

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз