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which serves as a forum for GDN Southeast Europe |
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on an initiative by The World Bank, wiiw started the project
in January 2000 with financial support from The World Bank and
the Austrian Ministry of Finance. Since 2002, the project has
also been supported by Oesterreichische Nationalbank (Austria's
central bank). The purpose of the project is to create research
networks throughout Southeast Europe in order to |
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enhance the economic research capacity in Southeast Europe (SEE);
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build new research capacities by mobilizing young researchers; |
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promote knowledge transfer into the region; |
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facilitate networking between researchers within the region
(beyond country borders); |
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assist in securing knowledge transfer from researchers to policy
makers. |
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first phase of the project (2000-2001) two research networks
were established: |
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two research networks altogether 137 researchers were involved,
88 of them actively by preparing papers and contributions while
the other 49 acted as discussants or special advisors on certain
research aspects. |
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phase of the project (2002-2004) (see papers)
consisted of three modules: |
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the
setting-up of new economic research groups and research networks
in the Balkan region with the aim to conduct high-level research
on selected topics; |
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the
continuation of the Regional Research Competition (providing
again additional funds for Southeast European research projects);
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the
cooperation within a global research project under the heading
'Understanding Reform', in which wiiw researchers were also
involved, focusing on the Southeast European region. |
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The
research areas were: the path towards accession to the EU; enterprise
development and labour markets; unilateral, bilateral and multilateral
economic policy coordination; understanding reform. |
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phase of the project (2004-2006) (see papers)
had the following aims: |
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to
build new research capacities for the analysis of important
aspects of economic development in the region and the formulation
of sound policy measures; |
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to
further develop research networks in the Balkans with the aim
to conduct high-level research; |
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to
encourage new research on selected topics. |
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areas were: labour markets and migration; FDI, trade and exchange
rates; and foreign aid. |
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phase of the project (2007-2008) (see papers)
had the following structure: |
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wiiw
organized a research competition with calls for proposals on
inequality, migration and fiscal policies; |
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contributions
to the Global Research Project in the form of country studies,
written by researchers in the region; |
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in
addition to participating in the GDN Annual Conferences, wiiw
organized two workshops at the Brisbane and the Kuwait conference; |
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the
work for the SEE network was complemented by wiiw’s in-house
research. |
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areas were: inequality; migration; and fiscal systems. |
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fifth phase of the project (2009-2010) has the following
goals: |
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to
organize a research competition with calls for proposals on
inequality and public policy; |
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to
extend the research competition to the CIS region; |
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in
addition to participating in the upcoming GDN Annual Conferences,
wiiw will organize a workshop on inequality and public policy
for the Prague conference; |
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the
work for the SEE network will be complemented by wiiw’s in-house
research. |
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area is: inequality and public policy. |
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