With the enlargement of the European Union, new bordering countries emerged in the East which are characterized by comparatively low incomes and living standards, incomplete democratization and a number of latent political conflicts. Against this background it can be expected that migrations...

Several trade-based measures of product variety have recently been used implicitly to represent states of technology, promoting long-run growth. In this paper, we define the state of technology as the range of specialised production processes and propose the variety of capital goods available...

Recent panel studies have found relatively high estimates for the elasticity of real exchange rates with respect to productivity measures in transition economies within Balassa- Samuelson frameworks. This contrasts with other findings reporting cross-section price-income elasticity estimates to...

This paper presents the results from a private sector survey among companies of the food industry in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as well as of the light industry in Uzbekistan. It provides microeconomic evidence on the change in the companies' ownership structure resulting from the privatisation...

The resource-based Central Asian countries Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan constitute a special case for fiscal decentralization. Political and administrative centralization is accompanied by the centralized administration of resource rents and weak governance structures on local...

Seit dem Jahr 1999 verzeichnet Kasachstan die höchsten Wachstumsraten im zentralasiatischen Raum und sogar innerhalb der GUS. Dieses Wachstum wurde und wird getrieben durch den Abbau und Export der Öl- und Gasvorkommen des Landes. Ein großer Teil der Renten fließt in Form von Steuern und...

This paper is presenting the results of two surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan during 2002-2004. Altogehter 136 privatized enterprises of food processing and light industries have been questioned, supplemented by qualitative interviews of selected enterprises. The...

Die gradualistischen Wirtschaftsreformen bei der Transformation der Wirtschaftsordnung Chinas hatten sich als sehr erfolgreich erwiesen. Zwei Dekaden später schien Usbekistan mit seinem gradualistischen Vorgehen und dem "Usbekischen Wachstumswunder" diesem Modell zu folgen. Ein systematischer...

The differences in chosen transition paths as well as the resulting outcomes between Russia and China are well-documented. Similarly, the Central Asian republics have followed different transition paths despite similar initial conditions. Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan opted for...