Constructing Market-based Economies in Central Asia: A Natural Experiment?

Richard Pomfret

European Journal of Comparative Economics, 2010, vol. 7, issue 2, 449-467

Abstract: This paper reviews the experience of the five Central Asian countries in the two decades since independence. In the 1990s the five countries looked like a natural experiment. They had similar initial conditions, but different transition strategies. Today that does not appear to have been a useful research agenda, which raises some broader questions for comparative economic studies.

Keywords: transition; -; Central; Asia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O53 P20 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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