chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The Soviet legacy in Uzbekistan -- chapter 3 The “Uzbek road” to economic reform1 -- chapter 4 Growth, distribution, and social consumption 1 -- chapter 5 Human rights in Uzbekistan and its neighbors -- chapter 6 Uzbekistan’s Central Asian neighbors...

This book brings together ten original studies on the transition and growth experience and the foundations for long-term growth of the newly independent states created by the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

Uzbekistan's system of multiple exchange rates arose when the sum was made inconvertible in 1996. This has caused many real problems to this transition economy, and promises to return to convertibility have been only partially carried out so far. The problems ahead are analyzed in this article.