Titolo Constructing market-based economies in central Asia: a natural experiment? Periodico European Journal of Comparative Economics Anno: 2010 - Volume: 7 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 449 - Pagina finale: 467
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.