Following through on reforms: Comparing market liberalization in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan

The Politics of Transition in Central Asia and the Caucasus: Enduring Legacies and Emerging Challenges

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 141-162

  Blackmon, Pamela ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203027905     Document Type: Chapter

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