Kazakstani economy : independence and transition /

Kalyuzhnova (research fellow, Univ. of Reading, UK) briefly examines some of the changes in the economy of Kazakstan as an independent country after the dissolution of the USSR in 1991. She discusses the introduction of a new national currency (the Tenge), industrial policy, banking and public finance, privatization, and foreign economic relations. She criticizes many aspects of Kazak government policy and its implementation, as well as various types of Kazak official statistics. She draws on her 20 years of residence in Kazakstan, her work for the Kazak government, and Kazak sources (in Russian) and English-language literature on the economics of transition. The World Bank's Kazakstan: Transition of the State (1997) offers a more detailed treatment of the country's economic reform process, with a large statistical annex. Maps, many tables and charts. A book more suitable for research libraries than undergraduate collections. M. Bornstein; University of Michigan