Journal Article
Uzbekistan

The case of Uzbekistan presents somewhat of a paradox in the study of models of transition. The country has managed to earn quite a poor international reputation as a slow economic reformer. Desai (1997) ranked the republic last out of twelve transition economies on each of the dimensions of economic liberalisation subject to review. The categorisation in de Melo et a!. (1996), that was adopted by the recent World Development Report. accorded similarly poor marks to Uzbekistan's performance. International investment and donor support for the largest republic in Central Asia have been correspondingly limited.