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The purpose of this paper is to examine students' perceptions toward drivers of entrepreneurship in the cross cultural context. The sample of the study consists of undergraduate students from Kyrgyzstan (n=200), Bhutan (n=200) and Taiwan (n=200) universities. Primary data were compiled by using face-to-face and online questionnaire methods. Descriptive statistics, paired sample t test and ANOVA were used for data analysis. The empirical findings reveal that Bhutanese students have the highest mean scores compared to other countries. Independence dimension is found to be the first driver for all the three countries. However, the last dimension is different for the countries. Government support is the last driver for Kyrgyzstan, family and relatives for Bhutan and economic conditions for Taiwan respectively.

Drawing on two waves of public opinion surveys conducted in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, we investigate the rise in religiosity and orthodoxy among Central Asian Muslims. We confirm that a religious revival is underway, with nearly 100 percent of Kazakhstani and Kyrgyzstani Muslims self-identifying as such in 2012—up from 80 percent in Kazakhstan in 2007. If we dig a bit deeper, however, we observe cross-national variations. Religious practice, as measured by daily prayer and weekly mosque attendance, is up in Kyrgyzstan, but has fallen in Kazakhstan. While the share of those who express preferences associated with religious orthodoxy has grown in both, this group has more than doubled in Kazakhstan. We attribute these differences to political context, both in terms of cross-national political variation and, within each country, variation based on regional differences.

This scientific article researches peculiarities of using various tax concessions of stimulating innovative activity of the enterprises. It also provides comparative analysis of possible consequences of applying these instruments in practice. This article is also devoted to the analysis of the current government policy of the tax support of the innovative enterprises in Uzbekistan and development of proposals and recommendations on improving the existing mechanism of the state tax stimulation of innovative processes ongoing in the economy based on the principles of the support of innovative processes by three aspects: producers of the innovative production, consumers of these goods and specialists who create innovations.

"Nationalism and Post-Communist International Relations" published on by Oxford University Press.