EJCEYear: 2010, December. Volume: 7 - Issue: 2
Constructing Market-based Economies in Central Asia: A Natural Experiment?
Richard Pomfret
View this articleStart page: 449 - End page: 467
Keywords:
transition - Central Asia
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.
Jel code: O53
Jel code: O53
