The Central Asian economies in the twenty-first century: paving a new silk road
In: ProQuest Ebook Central
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- CONTENTS -- List of Images and Table -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- PART I. THE BACKGROUND -- 1. Introduction: Reconnecting Central Asia as the Crossroads of Euras -- 1.1. Nation Building and Challenges of Transition from Central Planning -- 1.2. Outline of the Book -- 2. Creating Market-Based Economies -- 2.1. Initial Conditions and Choice of Economic Policies -- 2.2. Economic Performance in the Decade after Independence -- 2.3. Distributional Consequences of Transition -- 2.4. The Situation in the Early 2000s -- 2.5. The Twenty-First Century -- 3. The Role of Natural Resources -- 3.1. Is Natural Resource Abundance a Curse? -- 3.2. Oil and Natural Gas -- 3.3. Minerals -- 3.4. Agriculture and Pastoralism -- 3.5. Cotton -- 3.6. Hydroelectricity -- 3.7. Conclusions -- PART II. THE NATIONAL ECONOMIES -- 4. Kazakhstan -- 4.1. The Dismal 1990s -- 4.2. The Boom Years, 1999-2007 -- 4.3. Agriculture -- 4.4. The Social Sectors -- 4.5. The 2007-8 Banking Crisis, Resource Nationalism, and Samruk-Kazyna -- 4.6. Kazakhstan 2050 -- 4.7. Conclusions -- 5. Uzbekistan -- 5.1. The Uzbek Paradox, 1991-96 -- 5.2. The Reintroduction of Exchange Controls, 1996-2003 -- 5.3. Economic Reform and Social Unrest -- 5.4. Responding to Crisis and Facing New Challenges in 2014-16 -- 5.5. The Karimov Era in Retrospect -- 5.6. Prospects for the Mirziyoyev Era -- 6. Turkmenistan -- 6.1. The Turkmenistan Economic Model -- 6.2. External Relations -- 6.3. Economic Performance, 1991-2006 -- 6.4. Natural Gas: Part One -- 6.5. From Turkmenbashi to Berdymuhamedov -- 6.6. Natural Gas: Part Two -- 6.7. Conclusions -- 7. The Kyrgyz Republic -- 7.1. Creating a Market Economy -- 7.2. Economic Development -- 7.3. Kumtor -- 7.4. Transit Center Manas -- 7.5. Retail Trade and Value Chains -- 7.6. Migration and Remittances