This paper investigates the barriers to trade in Central Asia. While much of the existing literature on international … light on impediments to trade. It finds that the impact of borders on price variations across different locations in Central … country are just as large as variations across countries. This may be due to obstacles to trade, and in particular rent …

helps to bring in private capital essential in transition period. If it does, it creates a ground for public …-private partnership that could restore conditions for economic growth in transition economies. If it does not, then it is necessary to …

Central Asian countries. The two main sections analyse (1) why the large number of regional trade agreements which the Central … Uzbekistan) own WTO accession. During the1990s, many regional trade agreements were signed - arrangements both among the Central … Asian countries vacillated between pursuing regional and multilateral trade policy avenues. The Central Asian countries …

schemes, and taking the Central Asian countries as a case study. Almost all the countries in transition from central planning …

the effects of trade liberalization. In its policy towards neighbors (the European Neighborhood Policy, ENP), the EU puts … trade agreements that the EU envisages concluding with its Eastern neighbors will involve substantial harmonization of … have to focus on the areas that relate to improvement of market access, i.e. removing restrictions to trade, harmonizing …