ISSUE 41: MARCH-MAY 2006
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Two new books from UNU-CRIS
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The first results of a UNU Comparative Regional Integration Studies (UNU-CRIS) project on monitoring regional integration have been published in a new book.
Assessment and Measurement of Regional Integration, edited by Philippe De Lombaerde of UNU-CRIS, is published by Routledge in their Warwick Studies of Globalisation book series.
The book contains the results of a virtual workshop on indicators of regional integration, in which academics and practitioners from all over the world contributed to a UNU-CRIS project to establish a public database with quantitative and qualitative data on regional integration schemes across the world.
Using an interdisciplinary approach, this book explores how regional integration can be quantified, evaluated and monitored. It investigates the methodological problems involved in designing monitoring tools for regional integration, and makes suggestions for designing and organizing systems of indicators of regional integration.
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ANOTHER book from UNU-CRIS explores the monetary and exchange rate policies in Eastern European countries not covered by the current EU enlargement process.
The Periphery of the Euro: Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in CIS Countries, edited by Lucio Vinhas de Souza, European Commission and Kiel Institute for World Economics, and Philippe De Lombaerde, contains the results of the first meeting of the University Association for Contemporary European Studies organised by UNU-CRIS and the Kiel Institute for World Economics in 2004.
The book, published by Ashgate in its Transition and Development book series, analyses the monetary and exchange rate policies in Eastern European countries not covered by the current EU enlargement process, specifically Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and the Ukraine.
Current and prospective monetary policy options are considered, and the applicability of the EU monetary integration experience for the CIS countries and the prospects of a monetary re-unification around the Russian Federation are assessed. This is the first book to formally deal with many of these questions.
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