Die immer noch knappe Datenlage erlaubt kaum sichere Erkenntnisse darüber, wie sich die Raumstruktur in Ostdeutschland in den letzten Jahren verändert hat, um so auf künftige Perspektiven schließen zu können. Dennoch wird deutlich, daß das Schwergewicht der wirtschaftlichen Aktivitäten...

After more than two decades of agrarian change in Tajikistan, farming structures seem to crystallise. The first signs towards farm individualisation were observed only around 2000, which were the result of significant pressure from outside, when the post-conflict state was highly susceptible to...

The quality of institutions is considerable worse in Central Asia than in other transition countries. Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2005, this paper shows that oil and aid exert a negative influence on institutional development. At the same time,...

This paper challenges the uselfullness of the cluster-based development strategy to diversify and increase the competitiveness of Kazakhstan's economy, regarding the case of the country's agro-food sector. For this it refers to insights of the Austrian Market Process Theory. It is argued that...