Economic Prospects of the CIS Sources of Long Term Growth

Contents: Preface 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 References Index Contributors: I. Abramov, O. Babanin, M. Bakanova, K. Bektemirov, S. Chepel, L.V. de Souza, V. Dubrovskiy, M. Gorban, R. Hasanov, O. Ivaschenko, T. Jrbashyan, Y. Kalyuzhnova, I. Kolesnikova, H. Manasyan, R. Mogilevsky, B. Mukhamediyev, G. Ofer, J. Pemberton, O. Petrushin, R. Pomfret, V. Popov, A. Radziwill, A. Repkine, M. Spechler, F. Suvankulov, K. Umarov, N. Volchkova, K. Yudaeva.Ofer, Gur is the author of 'Economic Prospects of the CIS Sources of Long Term Growth', published 2004 under ISBN 9781843766155 and ISBN 1843766159.