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Want to Understand Industrialization in Resource-Rich Countries such as Uzbekistan? Read Marx (and Iñigo Carrera)

March 15, 2023

The commodity supercycle of the 2000s and 2010s gave rise to a rich debate in the academic literature about the potential for resource-rich countries to take advantage of the primary…

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17 min

Politics of the Kyrgyz mining sector: An Interview with Beril Ocaklı

May 7, 2021

The mining sector of the Kyrgyz Republic has been attracting a lot of diverse investments even despite frequent conflicts and violence. Investors are advised to consider volatile politics when entering…

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28 min

Economy

Agriculture in Central Asia: Unlocking the Potential. An Interview with Irna Hofman

October 11, 2018

Agricultural production in Central Asia has the potential to profit its millions of rural inhabitants. Yet the sector has thus far failed to diversity its exports, which would allow it…

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9 min

Economy

How Kazakhstan Is Trying to Reform Itself to Become a Regional Economic Hub

April 16, 2018

Among post-Soviet states, Kazakhstan was on the leading edge of reforms in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Thereafter, the reform process stalled, but with new top-down initiatives announced in…

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19 min

China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Impact in Central Asia

January 19, 2018

The NAC-NU Central Asia Studies Program, in partnership with GW’s Central Asia Program, has published a book on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and its impact in Central Asia.…

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1 min

A Year of Economic Reforms with President Mirziyoyev

December 28, 2017

The President of Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has concluded the year with a historic first address to the parliament. On December 22, in a four-hour speech broadcast live across Uzbekistan, Mirziyoyev…

Want to Understand Industrialization in Resource-Rich Countries such as Uzbekistan? Read Marx (and Iñigo Carrera)

Politics of the Kyrgyz mining sector: An Interview with Beril Ocaklı

Agriculture in Central Asia: Unlocking the Potential. An Interview with Irna Hofman

How Kazakhstan Is Trying to Reform Itself to Become a Regional Economic Hub

China’s Belt and Road Initiative and its Impact in Central Asia

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