VIII International Conference on Eurasian Integration of the Eurasian Development Bank kicks off in Moscow
"Every year we hold the conference which attracts elite experts, heads of relevant departments of the CIS states, representatives of integration organizations", said a member of the Board, Managing Director of Research EDB Vladimir Jasinskiy. The specialists of the CIS, with different experiences and problems' vision, present their viewpoints and discuss ways of Eurasian integration contributing to finding the best solutions.
The VIII conference to consider the current problems of the Eurasian integration to obtain scientifically sound and feasible recommendations to further improvement of the efficiency of integration mechanisms in connection with the planned establishment of the Eurasian Economic Union.
Special attention at the forum is on coordination of macroeconomic policies, cooperation prospects between SES member states and Ukraine, expansion of the Customs Union and the Single Economic Space. Plenary sessions and sections emphasize the issues of mutual investment in the CIS, approaches to macroeconomic forecasting in Eurasian integration, infrastructure aspects of integration, integration of commodity markets, the single labor market, public attitude to integration, cross-border cooperation.
“EDB science-to-practice conferences have become an efficient communicative and information instrument for financial institutions, state bodies, economic operators of the bank’s member states. Such discussions and elaborated recommendations promote formation of new approaches to strengthening the economic activity of the bank, formation of its investment portfolio. The significance of EDB conferences has been constantly increasing due to the functioning and expansion of the Customs Union of Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan, development of the Single Economic Space and the Eurasian Economic Union,” the bank noted.
The Eurasian Development Bank is an international financial institution founded by Russia and Kazakhstan in January 2006 with a view to assisting the development of market economies of the participating states while facilitating their sustainable economic growth and expanding their mutual trade and economic ties. The EDB’s authorized capital exceeds $1.5 billion. The participating states are Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan.
