I am interested in Kazakhstan and in particular with its economic development efforts. Can anyone lead me to articles, reports, etc. that provide good accounts of this? Thanks!
Here are some good and/or promising sources. Cheers
1. Globalizing Central Asia: Geopolitics and the Challenges of Economic Development
http://www.amazon.com/Globalizing-Central-Asia-Geopolitics-Development/dp/0765635054
2. The Central Asian Economies Since Independence By Richard Pomfret
http://pup.princeton.edu/chapters/s8279.html
3. The Economies of Central Asia By Richard Pomfret
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/5753.html
4. Introducing the new era of Eurasian Geography and Economics
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15387216.2013.803236?journalCode=rege20#.VQW_CvnF-UY
5. Kazakhstan: Oil endowment and oil empowerment
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967067X12000050
6. Risky business: The political economy of Chinese investment in Kazakhstan
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1879366514000086
7. Uncertainty, Insecurity, and Emigration from Kazakhstan to Russia
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305750X12001854
8. Resource concentration, institutional quality and the natural resource curse
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0939362513000307
9. Kazakhstan seeks economic diversification, fast growth in ADB deal
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/04/kazakhstan-adb-agreement-idUSL6N0NQ08220140504
Dear Robert,
Our latest book on Evolutionary Governance Theory includes a number of chapters that address the most important development challenges in central Asia. Most of these chapters can be downloaded on researchgate or elswhere. The authors of these chapters have published more interesting work, particularly drawing on extensive fieldwork in Uzbekistan.
http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-12274-8
Chapter Accounting in Evolving Organizations
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For a comparison of Central Asian countries see my recent book (below).
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Dear Robert,
I could quickly mention:
- Human Development Reports on countries in Central Asia as well as the UNDP website on the region: http://www.eurasia.undp.org/content/rbec/en/home/regioninfo/ as well as http://hdr.undp.org/sites/default/files/Country-Profiles/KAZ.pdf
- Country Partnership Strategy document and poverty analysis for Kazahkstan: http://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/linked-documents/cps-kaz-2012-2016-pa.pdf
- IMF Reports and Article IV Missions
Best
Leisa
In addition to the material provided by others, you may wish to consult the journal Central Asian Survey, in the event that links to articles shared have not been published therein.
Best,
Shinan
See millerbillr on Researchgate and www.card.am that is the successor to MAP
United Nations-FAO now estimates that Armenia will be one of four developing nations that will achieve food security by 2015.
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION O THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2009 CREATING AN ENABLING ENVIRONMENT FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH AND HUMAN WELL-BEING: Making the transition from planned to open market economies has dominated the experience of Armenia during the past two decades. After some initial difficulties, Armenia succeeded in creating a strong enabling environment for private sector enterprise and reached out proactively to its small farmers to facilitate their transition to market-oriented operations. Support was given for the development of a network of village credit associations.
The FAO report accurately describes part of the MAP model in Armenia, but fails to mention the vital importance of new institutions. MAP success was accomplished via simultaneous development of human capital, (Chapter 9) new institutions, (Chapter 7, Chapter 8, Chapters 10&11 and Chapter 17) and investment in small and medium enterprise, SME, infrastructure of agricultural production and marketing. See Chapters 12 and 13 for infrastructure investments. During 1996-2004 the project expended 50 million dollars and employed more that 200 advisers from U.S. agricultural universities in a dysfunctional political atmosphere including fear of local government (Chapter 5-6 The Villages), political murder (Chapter 15) in Armenia and back-door politics (chapter 18). Chapter 19 contrasts the success of MAP as a development model with the failure of the U.S. State department’s attempt at nation building in Iraq. Chapter 20 discusses the future of projects like MAP. An elusive element of development is a “change in thinking about problems”. Some would call it education. Chapter 22 discusses this aspect of development and briefly discusses the case of economic development in Poland as it relates to development of the Agribusiness Teaching Center in Armenia.
Good papers ? may be
About agricultural transition in Uzbk et neighboring countries post 1991 , see
The Steppes of Middle Asia: Post 1991 Agricultural and Rangeland Adjustment: in Arid Land Research and Management 19(3):215-239 · July 2005
· DOI: 10.1080/15324980590951360
available from https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Gus_Gintzburger/contributions
Hope it helps.
Rgds
Gus
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