EAEU and Eurasia: Monitoring and Analysis of Direct Investments 2017

Abstract

Russian version is available at: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3090888

This report presents the latest findings of a research project on the monitoring of direct investments in Eurasia, which is being implemented by the EDB Centre for Integration Studies and the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It complements the monitoring of mutual investments in the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), another project under way since 2011, and covers direct investments made by Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan, and Ukraine in all countries of Eurasia outside the CIS and Georgia, and including Egypt. The authors also review reciprocal direct investments made by Austria, the Netherlands, Serbia, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Israel, Iran, India, Singapore, Vietnam, Mongolia, China, South Korea, and Japan in the eight CIS countries listed above. Based on statistical data collected in the course of the monitoring exercise, the authors provide detailed information on the evolution, actual geographical localization, and sectoral makeup of the capital investments under review.

Keywords: CIS, Eurasia, foreign direct investments, transnational corporations, corporate integration, EAEU

JEL Classification: F15, F21, F23