An increasingly important part of international trade consists of fragmentation of the production process, with differing tasks in the global value chain (GVC) being undertaken in different locations. The paper traces the origins of the GVC phenomenon, attempts to measure the significance of...

Das Buch gibt eine historische und strukturelle Analyse der Wirtschaft in Zentralasien wieder. Besonders über die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung der seit kurzem unabhängigen Länder wie Usbekistan und Kasachstan wird berichtet. Im ersten Teil des Buches werden Hintergrundsinformationen über die...

How should the economic performance of the Central Asian countries during the 1990s be measured? The most commonly used indicator is GDP, even though GDP estimates for transition economies are known to suffer from conceptual and methodological shortcomings. This paper combines national accounts...