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TRANSCAUCASUS AND CENTRAL ASIA: DEMOGRAPHIC POTENTIAL IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CIS COMMON LABOR MARKETAnatoly TOPILIN
Anatoly Topilin, Doctor of Economics, advisor, the CIS Executive Committee.
The Transcaucasus and Central Asia are a major player on the CIS labor market. This is due to the following socio-economic factors: considerable demographic and labor potential; natural resources and raw materials (oil, gas, iron ore, nonferrous metals, and so forth) exported to other CIS countries; division of labor and economic cooperation links both between Transcaucasus and Central Asian countries and with other CIS states that evolved during the Soviet era; and a common socio-cultural area based on the role of Russian as a language of interethnic communication as well as on cultural traditions, interethnic relations, and stable migration exchanges.
The Commonwealth of Independent States is going through a difficult period; a painstaking search is now in progress for ways to resolve the crisis, in particular, on a regional basis: Regional structures have been created within the CIS framework, such as the Belarus-Russia Union, the Customs Union (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, and Tajikistan), the Central Asian Economic Community (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan), and the GUUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Moldova).
Regionalization of the CIS enhances the importance of the countries’ labor potential as a factor of economic integration. To ensure its more effective use in the CIS common economic area, it is essential to analyze the main trends in the formation of demographic and labor potential of the Transcaucasus and Central Asia region. This approach is an important prerequisite for overcoming crisis phenomena in the socio-economic and labor sphere, working out a coordinated employment policy, and regulating migration processes in the CIS.
The Demographic SituationIn the 90s, just like in the 80s, the demographic and labor potential of the former Union republics of the Transcaucasus and Central Asia, continued to ………..
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