ISSN: 1824-2979
by Richard Pomfret
Start page: 449 - End page: 467
Keywords: transition; Central Asia
Jel code: O53; O53
DOI:
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.