habits among boys in remittance or transfer receiving households. In the long run, Kyrgyzstan needs human capital development …

product composition of Central Asian trade. The paper focuses on Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan … manufacturing wages in the region with key competitors shows that the resource rich countries (Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan) with …

This paper focuses on inequality in living standards across oblasts and regions within Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic … countries is negatively affected. We examine Living Standards Measurement data from Tajikistan, Kyrgystan, and Kazakhstan and …

With the disintegration of the USSR a conflict arose between Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan over the Syr Darya … river. Upstream Kyrgyzstan operates the Toktogul reservoir which generates hydropower demanded mainly in winter for heating …. Downstream Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan need irrigation water in summer, primarily to grow cotton. Regional agreements obliging …

scholastic performance in five Asian countries (Azerbaijan, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Thailand). In the …

economic growth rates since their transformational recession in the 1990s. While Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan have … greatly benefitted from increasing world market prices for natural resources, particularly Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have …

Trust or likewise "confidence" (the term preferred in this paper) are notions which have received considerable … mean by "confidence", what the differences between optimism and confidence are and how the onset of confidence can possibly … be explained. Also, we analyze the economic effects of a lack of or the erosion of confidence. The paper intends to …