%0 Journal Article
%T Constructing Market-based Economies in Central Asia: A Natural Experiment?
%A Pomfret
%A Richard
%J The European Journal of Comparative Economics
%D 2010
%I European Association for Comparative Economic Studies and Universita Carlo Cattaneo
%X 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.
%K transition
%K Central Asia
%U http://eaces.liuc.it/18242979201002/182429792010070210.pdf