The economic prospects of the CIS sources of long term growth / [electronic resource] : Economic prospects of the Commonwealth of Independent States edited by Gur Ofer and Richard Pomfret. - Cheltenham, U.K. ; Northampton, Mass. : Edward Elgar Pub., 2004. - 1 online resource (xiv, 300 p.) : ill.,

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction -- 2. Down and up the stairs : paradoxes of Russian economic growth -- 3. Transition and growth in Belarus -- 4. Ukraine : the lost decade ... and the coming boom? -- 5. Barriers to growth in Moldova -- 6. Explaining growth in Armenia : the pivotal role of human capital -- 7. Turkmenistan : economic autocracy and recent growth performance -- 8. The Uzbek paradox : progress without neo-liberal reform -- 9. Tajikistan's growth performance : the first decade of transition -- 10. Economic growth in Kyrgyzstan -- 11. Natural resources and economic growth in Kazakhstan -- 12. Conclusions.

This book brings together ten original studies on the transition and growth experience and the foundations for long-term growth of the newly independent states created by the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

9781845420567 (e-book)

2003064351


Former Soviet republics--Economic conditions--Congresses.


Electronic books.

HC336.27 / .E26 2004

338.947