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H2020Staff exchange2018–2023

SHADOW · An exploration of the nature of informal economies and shadow practices in the former USSR region

Horizon 2020 — Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Duration
2018-03-01 → 2023-02-28
EU contribution
€810,000
Participants
12
Scheme
MSCA-RISE

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Results in brief

SHADOW: An exploration of the nature of informal economies and shadow practices in the former USSR region

Extending from Eastern Europe to Eastern Asia, from the Caucasus to Central Asia, the post-USSR region, occupying almost one sixth of the world’s territory, has an immense potential for the EU as source of natural resources and potential market for EU companies. In spite of this, the region is often seen as a highly hazardous one to deal with, given its “uncertain business and investment climate with widespread opportunism and corruption, misuse and misappropriation of state assets and conflicting information flow” SHADOW is a research and training programme with the goal of producing strategic intelligence on the region and train a generation of specialists on informality in post-Soviet spaces. Our goals are two-fold: 1) we intend to construct an index to provide an accurate measurement of the level of shadow activities in our target countries; 2) we aim to conceptualise a taxonomy of shadow practices in the post-USSR region in a cross-country and cross-regional perspective. Both goals are intended to contribute to a much better understanding of the threats and opportunities that the former USSR region, of fundamental importance for the EU, offers.

Data: CORDIS, © European Union

Project objective

Extending from Eastern Europe to Eastern Asia, from the Caucasus to Central Asia, the post-USSR region, occupying almost one sixth of the world’s territory, has an immense potential for the EU as source of natural resources and potential market for EU companies. In spite of this, the region is often seen as a highly hazardous one to deal with, given its “uncertain business and investment climate with widespread opportunism and corruption, misuse and misappropriation of state assets and conflicting information flow”SHADOW is a research and training programme with the goal of producing strategic intelligence on the region and train a generation of specialists on informality in post-Soviet spaces. Our goals are two-fold: 1) we intend to construct an index to provide an accurate measurement of the level of shadow activities in our target countries; 2) we aim to conceptualise a taxonomy of shadow practices in the post-USSR region in a cross-country and cross-regional perspective. Both goals are intended to contribute to a much better understanding of the threats and opportunities that the former USSR region, of fundamental importance for the EU, offers.

Original text from CORDIS.

Participants

  • DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY · DublinCoordinatorIreland
  • CENTER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES · TbilisiGeorgia
  • INDEPENDENT NON GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATION YURI LEVADA ANALYTICAL CENTER · MOSCOWRussia
  • JAHON IQTISODIYOTI VA DIPLOMATIYA UNIVERSITETI · TashkentUzbekistan
  • KIEV INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIOLOGY LLC · KyivUkraine
  • LUNDS UNIVERSITET · LundSweden
  • NON COMMERCIAL JOINT STOCK COMPANY KAZAKH NATIONAL UNIVERSITY NAMES AFTER AL-FARABI · ALMATYKazakhstan
  • SIAR RESEARCH AND CONSULTING LLC · BishkekKyrgyzstan
  • STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS IN RIGA SIA · RigaLatvia
  • TALLINNA TEHNIKAÜLIKOOL · TallinnEstonia
  • UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI MESSINA · MessinaItaly
  • UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI · BucurestiRomania

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Data: CORDIS, © European Union