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...

Kazakhstan's government has used oil revenues to promote economic diversification, including a billion dollar 2003-2005 Agriculture and Food Program to reverse the 1990s decline in agricultural output. This paper provides estimates of producer support equivalents for the main agricultural...

After becoming independent in 1991, the five Central Asian countries pursued differing transition paths from the defunct central planning. This paper analyses the connection between economic policies and performance during the 1990s and 2000s. Performance over the two decades has been determined...

This book is the first general introduction to the economies of central Asia, specifically the recently independent countries of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkmenistan. Richard Pomfret provides a historical and structural analysis of this area of the former Soviet...

The 9/11 attacks, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, and the oil boom of recent years have greatly increased the strategic importance of resource-rich Central Asia, making an understanding of its economic--and therefore political--prospects more important than ever. In The Central Asian Economies...