Two decades of transition in the five Central Asian Republics (CARs) have shown that, in the absence of a theoretical framework (roadmap) and political commitment for implementation, borrowed laws and institutions based on the international best practice are useful but not fully effective in...

Health and consumer finance are hard to disentangle. Social and power structures in the imperfect health-care market favor suppliers and their regulators. The asymmetric control of resources and information by the industry renders consumers impotent in finding the optimum levels of medical goods...