Vol 25, No 2 (2017)

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the Eurasian Economic Union in the modern global economy is the second economic union in the history of the development and existence of integration processes. It is one of the largest regional markets, which unites about 182.7 million people, it possesses the fifth part of the world’s gas reserves and 15% for oil, with total GDP of about 2.5 trillion dollars (about 85% of GDP in all CIS countries), the industrial potential of 600 billion dollars and the volume of agricultural production - 112 billion dollars, etc. Thus, the potential of the new integration association is unique. The question today is whether the five countries will be able to find common ground in their general economic interests to preserve the association and its further development, as well as through the accession of new post-Soviet countries. The Eurasian Economic Union can potentially become one of the most important subjects of the world economy, a regional and even a global leader, if the association secures its economic safety, or put in other words will ensure the positive economic effect for each member country. The purpose of this article is to identify internal threats to the economic security of EAEU. The study showed that the most important internal threats to economic security are: the differentiation of the economic development of member countries; preservation of raw material export model of the development in Russia and Kazakhstan; virtually no trade and investment cooperation between such pairs of countries as Belarus - Armenia, Kazakhstan - Armenia, Kyrgyzstan - Armenia, Belarus - Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan - Belarus; aggravation of member countries financial problems; discrepancy in transport infrastructure development to the current needs of the integration association; absence of a single payment system; absence of a system of general integration of economic interests, divergence of the member countries interests up to the opposite position. Taking into account the material analyzed and the results obtained, the conclusion was drawn on the need to develop mechanisms for neutralizing these threats.

The paper characterizes the main trends of direct investment from the EU to Russia in connection with the introduction of the EU anti-Russian sanctions. The author analyzes the dynamics of foreign direct investment from European Union countries in the Russian economy, their industry structure. On the basis of the conducted analysis the author comes to the conclusion that in 2014-2016 the existing problems in the investment relations between the European Union and the Russian Federation to a significant extent, are not the direct result of the sanctions. The sanctions only exacerbated tensions that had already formed at the turn of the century.

The recent decades witnessed the transition of Russia from socialism to capitalism. Today the main task is to find the balance between business profit maximization and business ethics. Russia follows the experience of the developed countries where social responsibility issues have been discussed since the 1990th.

Now most the enterprises are characterized by low degree of adaptability to rapid changes of external and internal environment, inability to reach continuous dynamic high-quality change of quantitative indices, to carry out an objective complex assessment of extent of the development. The activity of the enterprises based on the principles of sustainable development will promote the solution of these problems. For sustainable development the enterprise needs to define accurately the purposes of the existence, an algorithm of consecutive actions, ways and methods of their achievement, i.e. to develop the mechanism (the mechanism of sustainable development) which will allow not only to adapt to environment conditions, but also to develop effectively.

The Global market of Islamic Insurance shows stable growth and development. In 2015 the volume of Global takaful market reached $23.3 billion. In comparison with 2006 year when takaful sphere reached $5 billion it increased for $20 billion. However takaful sector has a lot of indeterminate regulatory questions because it’s young branch of global finance. The article describes the takaful framework and the dynamics of its development. There is considering credit rating’ assessment principles, rating agencies’ different positions concerning credit rating’ assessments. Also in the article considered methods of improvement credit rating assessments of takaful-companies.

International migration has been always an important and compound issue by virtue of it closely relates to various facets from political, social and economic development for regions and countries. In ASEAN, international migration has been always defined as one of the fundamental features in ASEAN’s development transition (Chantavanich, Ito, and Middleton 2013). Over the last decades, the region’s economies have achieved significant and impressive growth, becoming one of the most dynamic economic performance regions in the world as well as has become more widely integrated into the regional and global economics1. The rapid growth process has transformed fundamentally economic structure of many Southeast Asian countries with the greater contribution of industrial and service sectors instead of solely based on the agriculture sector over many centuries. The demand for skills in higher income countries in the region has grown, while there is a fall in birthrates with greying populations that causes an increasing shortage of labor such as Thailand. For the lower income ones, on the contrary, the youth populations are burgeoning, which lead to the unemployment and underemployment rate are dramatically increasing such as Vietnam and Philippines.