chapter 1 Introduction -- chapter 2 The Soviet legacy in Uzbekistan -- chapter 3 The “Uzbek road” to economic reform1 -- chapter 4 Growth, distribution, and social consumption 1 -- chapter 5 Human rights in Uzbekistan and its neighbors -- chapter 6 Uzbekistan’s Central Asian neighbors...

The conventional way to become a developed "emerging market" has been to rely in large part on investments from high-income countries. This approach has failed, most obviously during the recent global financial crisis, and may not be feasible again for some years. Azerbaijan and five ex-Soviet...