Uzbekistan's higher education system has undergone some dramatic changes in the past century, evolving from largely traditional religious colleges to fully state-funded communist-atheist institutions. Since the end of the communist administration and subsequent market-oriented reforms, the...

Entrepreneurship has become one of the most researched areas in recent years. Its importance has increased further by the emergence of the ‘transition countries’, the countries of Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. As the transition countries strived to overhaul their economic and...

During the early years of transition output fell dramatically in almost all transitioneconomies. However, the Uzbek experience was an exception to this rule. Outputfell only slightly, soon to be followed by small but positive and persistent economicgrowth. This extraordinary performance, known...