This paper analyses the connection between resource wealth, governance and economic performance in Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. Since independence, both countries have remained heavily resource-dependent and they have had political stability, but despite some similarities, their economic...

Uzbekistan, of all the economies in transition since 1989, has most convincingly argued the case for gradualism, often invoking the Chinese model. The aim of this article is to take one important element of the Chinese model, the agrarian reform, and compare Uzbekistan's approach after 1991 to...