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...

Die fünf zentralasiatischen Länder, Kasachstan, Usbekistan, Kirgistan, Turkmenistan und Tadschikistan, bilden ein Areal von fast 4 Mill. km mit einer Gesamtbevölkerung von etwa 55 Mill. Einwohnern. Der Reichtum der Region an mineralischen Rohstoffen konzentriert sich auf Kasachstan,...

Die vorliegende empirische Studie befasst sich mit dem biologischen Lebensstandard der Bevölkerung in vier zentralasiatischen Transformationsländern: Kasachstan, Kirgistan, Turkmenistan und Usbekistan. Zum einen wird die Entwicklung des biologischen Lebensstandards der Bevölkerung in der...

Der Bericht befasst sich mit der Wirtschaftslage und den Reformprozessen nach den Anschlägen vom 11. September in den Ländern Zentralasiens. Es wird dargestellt, welchen Stand die wirtschaftliche Entwicklung erreicht hat und welche Probleme in der zentralasiatischen Region bislang ungelöst...

This article outlines those economic losses and attempts to impress upon the reader the potential for further disruptions at a regional level. There is a wasted economic potential in the youthful and increasingly well educated populations of Muslim countries, confined to poverty and handouts...

Managerial ties are an area commanding managers’ attention in emerging economies. However, no previous study has drawn on cross-country data to address a crucial question: Are more developed market-supporting institutions associated with less use of managerial ties in emerging economies?...

In many semi-arid and arid regions of the world, water saving strategies need to be implemented in the agricultural sector in order to increase the resilience to water scarcity. We investigate basin-scale hydrological impacts of possible irrigation technique improvements, considering extensive...

Recent decrease of water supply in central Asia and south Asia affects billions of people here. By filtering the errors at higher frequency components and correcting for the contaminated components, we enhance the monthly GRACE gravity fields to improve the determination of change in equivalent...