EAEU and Eurasia: Monitoring and Analysis of Direct Investments 2017

This report focuses on new results produced by the project to monitor direct investments in Eurasia. The project is being implemented by the EDB Centre for Integration Studies in fruitful partnership with the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS IMEMO). This research is a supplement to the monitoring of mutual investments of CIS countries, which has been conducted since 2011, and covers the direct investments of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Ukraine in all countries of Eurasia outside the CIS and Georgia. Thus, as compared with 2014, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan have been added, which shows the appearance of new EAEU members and indicates future plans to enlarge this integration group. Moreover, the report examines the reciprocal direct investments of Austria, the Netherlands, Turkey, Iran, India, Vietnam, China, the Republic of Korea, and Japan in the seven CIS countries mentioned above. Based on the statistics collected in the monitoring process, detailed information is provided about the dynamics, actual geographic allocation, and sectoral structure of these investments.