This paper examines the motives behind foreign direct investment (FDI) in a group of four CIS countries (Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia and Kyrgyzstan) based on a survey of 120 enterprises. The results indicate that non-oil multi-national enterprises (MNEs) are predominantly oriented at serving local...

The Kyrgyz Republic is one of the largest recipients of international remittances in the world; from a Balance of Payments measure of remittances, it ranked tenth in the world in 2008 in the ratio of remittances to GDP, a rapid increase from 30th place in 2004.Remittances can be used to maintain...

Die vorliegende Untersuchung von Dr. A. N. Dikich, Glaziologe und Stellvertretender Direktor des "Instituts für Geologie" der Kirgisischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in Bi?kek, wurde im Rahmen der Arbeiten zum Forschungsprojekt: "Wasserverknappung, Wassernutzungskonflikte und Wassermanagement...

Die vorliegende Untersuchung über die jüngeren Seespiegelschwankungen des Issyk- Kul' wurde von Dr. V. V. Romanovskij und Dr. V. A. Kuz'mičenok im "Institut für Wasserprobleme und Hydroenergie" der Nationalen Akademie der Wissenschaften der Republik Kirgistans in Biškek erstellt. Sie ist...

This article aims to give an overview over the reform of local irrigation management by its transfer to Water User Associations and to identify obstacles for its success. Its main focus are institutional aspects of the reform and not technical issues. Institutions are understood as formal as...

This paper analyses the public finance performance and the dynamics of government expenditures on education and health in the Kyrgyz Republic in 2007-2010, when the country was hit by the global economic crisis and then by an internal political crisis in 2010. Despite these crisis conditions,...