This Review, undertaken in close co-operation with the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan and conducted within the framework of the OECD Eurasia Competitiveness Programme, assesses the performance of agriculture in Kazakhstan over the last two decades. It evaluates...

"A re-conceptualisation of the widely-held concept of the "resource curse," which contends that resource booms inevitably lead to numerous political, social and economic problems. This book counters that these problems are by no means inevitable, but are rather the direct result of specific...

(1) Der Übergang zur Marktwirtschaft gestaltete sich in Kasachstan wie in allen Transformationsländern sehr schwierig. Im Jahr 1996 fiel das Bruttoinlandsprodukt um 61,7 % im Vergleich zum Jahr 1990 und erreichte damit seinen Tiefstand. Die wirtschaftliche Transformation wurde von einer...