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May 15, 2007 09:51
This issue was published under the title "Turning the Corner: The Economic Revival of Central Asian"
- Policy Studies
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May 15, 2007 09:51
This report is a background study in Kazakhstan for the UNDP Report "Regional Cooperation for Human Development and Security in Central Asia"
- Economic Integration of Eurasia: Opportunities and Challenges of Global Significance
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May 15, 2007 09:51
This paper focuses on exploring the economic dimensions and significance of the integration process of Eurasia.
- What Factors Led to the Asian Financial Crisis: Were or Were not Asian Economics Sound
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May 15, 2007 09:53
This paper attempts to confront various theoretical and empirical approaches to the East Asian currency crisis in 1997, but also with emphasis on two recently dominated literature about East Asian financial crisis.
- The Prospects and Problems of Central Asian Integration
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May 15, 2007 09:53
The focus of this study is the development of the relationship between the five CIS countries in Central Asia (Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan) since the disintegration of the USSR, and the reasons why their cooperation would be desirable in the future.
- Central Asia: Governance, geopolitics and development challenges
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May 15, 2007 09:53
This policy paper claims that Central Asia needs more serious external engagement in its development.
- Central Asia: governments, banks gradually open up to Islamic banking
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article is a comparative analysis of the activities of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) in the region, to which all Central Asia countries are member by now. The IDB’s largest Central Asian stakeholder is Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan is the smallest.
- Japan Promotes Multilateralism in Central Asia
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The author of the article supposes that Japan is promoting multilateralism in Central Asia as it strives to expand its economic and political presence in the region. A key element in Tokyo’s regional strategy is close cooperation with the United States.
- Russia’s Central Asia energy strategy experiences a few setbacks
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article focuses on how Russia has experienced several setbacks in its ongoing efforts to secure its energy dominance in Central Asia. Both Uzbek and Tajik officials have taken steps of late to reduce Russia’s energy position in their respective countries.
- Central Asia: EU takes its case to Astana
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article deals with German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier who took Europe’s case for stepped-up relations with Central Asia to the Kazakh capital today.
- UN Report: Central Asia countries will face a negative prospect of ecological change
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article summarizes new report by UN Intergovernmental Commission on Climate Change. As the report notes in the nearest decades natural disasters will increase in Central Asia and will become more regular and destructive.
- Washington to make diplomatic push for greater economic integration in Central, South Asia
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article deals with reasons and ways the United States will expend diplomatic energy in the coming months on promoting free trade among states in Central and South Asia.
- Energy issues are getting stained in Central Asia
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article focuses on the position of Turkmenistan and other Central Asian countries in energy game in the region and towards Russia.
- A conference under the aegis of UN provokes trade development in Central Asia
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The article focuses on the proposal made by the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbaev at the UN Conference on landlocked countries. He announced that he supports an attempt to increase volume of trade among Central Asian countries, but the author supposes that absence of mechanism of cooperation in the sphere of trade is the main obstacle for economic development in the region.
- Tajikistan: problems of trade and partnership with Central Asia countries (including Afghanistan and Xingiang Autonomous Region)
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May 15, 2007 09:54
The paper considers border strictness among Central Asian countries, Afghanistan and Xingiang Autonomous Region and its negative effect on transportation, transit, trade and cooperation among the countries.
- Tajik approach to regional economic cooperation with Central Asian countries (including Afghanistan)
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This paper identifies obstacles to regional cooperation and gives recommendations for amelioration the situation
- Information society - 2001, Issue 3
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This scientific-analytical journal is a Russian publication that systematically and step by step considers the government policy in this field. This issue has the following table of content:
- Information society and modern city
- Information society and mass media
- Foreign experience
- International cooperation
- Beyond borders: Reconsidering regional trade in Central Asia
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May 15, 2007 09:54
This paper investigates barriers to trade in Central Asia, with a particular focus on price variations between tradable goods. It finds that while prices vary significantly across the region, variations within one country are just as large as variations across countries. The paper also finds that the borders with Uzbekistan are considerably more difficult to trade across than those with Kazakhstan or the Kyrgyz Republic.
- Dimensions of urban poverty in the Europe and Central Asia region
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November 23, 2007 12:55
The objective of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of the extent and nature of poverty in urban areas in transition countries in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, providing particular attention to the disparities within urban areas between capital cities and secondary cities, and focusing on dimensions of poverty related to provision of network infrastructure and energy services in cities.
- Europe and Central Asia's great post-communist social health insurance experiment : impacts on health sector and labor market outcomes
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November 23, 2007 13:27
The post-communist transition to social health insurance in many of the Central and Eastern European and Central Asian countries provides a unique opportunity to try to answer some of the unresolved issues in the debate over the relative merits of social health insurance and tax-financed health systems. This paper employs a regression-based generalization of the difference-in-differences method and instrumental variables on panel data from 28 countries for the period 1990-2004.
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