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,...

While the regional economic integration encompassing the former Soviet Union (FSU) transpires to be inefficient, there appears to be a stronger interest in regionalism in smaller groups of more homogenous and geographically connected countries of the region, specifically, Central Asia. Using a...

Die vorliegende Untersuchung wurde im Rahmen der Arbeiten zum Forschungsprojekt: Wasserverknappung, Wassernutzungskonflikte und Wassermanagement in Trockengebieten Zentralasiens (Usbekistan, Kasachstan, Kirgistan, Xinjiang/VR China) erstellt. Das Ziel des Forschungsprojektes besteht darin, die...

This paper analyses the reform progress made in the energy-rich states of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan (AKTU for short) and contrasts their development to that in the resource-poor countries at the CIS periphery. The main...