Household Welfare in Central Asia: An Introduction to the Issues

Jane Falkingham, Jeni Klugman, Sheila Marnie and John Micklewright ()

Chapter 1 in Household Welfare in Central Asia, 1997, pp 1-18 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Once the centre of wealthy civilizations spanning trade routes between China and Europe, Central Asia was from the late nineteenth century onwards a remote and semi-closed outpost of the Russian and then Soviet empires. Since 1991 the region has re-emerged as an area of considerable interest given its strategic geographic location and its economic potential. This book assesses the welfare of households in the five independent republics of former Soviet Central Asia and the mechanisms used to support their living standards.

Keywords: Living Standard; Social Protection; United Nations Development Programme; Cash Transfer; Soviet Period (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-25475-0_1

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