This paper is presenting the results of two surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan during 2002-2004. Altogehter 136 privatized enterprises of food processing and light industries have been questioned, supplemented by qualitative interviews of selected enterprises. The...

This paper presents the results from a private sector survey among companies of the food industry in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan as well as of the light industry in Uzbekistan. It provides microeconomic evidence on the change in the companies' ownership structure resulting from the privatisation...

Seit dem Jahr 1999 verzeichnet Kasachstan die höchsten Wachstumsraten im zentralasiatischen Raum und sogar innerhalb der GUS. Dieses Wachstum wurde und wird getrieben durch den Abbau und Export der Öl- und Gasvorkommen des Landes. Ein großer Teil der Renten fließt in Form von Steuern und...

Die gradualistischen Wirtschaftsreformen bei der Transformation der Wirtschaftsordnung Chinas hatten sich als sehr erfolgreich erwiesen. Zwei Dekaden später schien Usbekistan mit seinem gradualistischen Vorgehen und dem Usbekischen Wachstumswunder diesem Modell zu folgen. Ein systematischer...

The resource-based Central Asian countries Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan constitute a special case for fiscal decentralization. Political and administrative centralization is accompanied by the centralized administration of resource rents and weak governance structures on local...

While most transition countries suffered substantially from the world financial crisis of 2008 and still cope with its consequences, Uzbekistan has stayed almost untouched and shows constant economic growth since 2001. Neither macroeconomic foundations nor available institutional indicators...

The quality of (economic) institutions in the crisis countries of the European Union (EU) is relatively poor along several dimensions, despite the adoption of the acquis communautaire of the EU. Economic literature suggests that efficient institutions matter for macroeconomic growth and...