This book contains: 1. Economic crisis and growing intraregional tensions 2. The economic development of Central Asia in the 1990s 3. Basic problems of market transition in Central Asia 4. Adapting globalization 5. Foreign trade and investment 6. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan: The economic consequences of membership in the World Trade Organization 7. Central Asia and the Asian-Pacific Region…
The defining characteristic of Asian-Pacific salience in world affairs, indeed one of the decisive developments of this century, has been economic dynamism. The Asian “tigers” have grown thrice as fast as the OECD economies in the 1980-90s. Between 1960 and 1990, the east Asian economies produced the fastest rise in incomes for the biggest number of peoples in human history. Describes th…