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Coordinating Aid for Regional Cooperation Projects: The Experience of Central Asia

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For the Central Asian countries the dissolution of the Soviet Union led to economic disintegration as old coordination mechanisms disappeared and new national borders appeared. This paper analyses why it has been difficult to coordinate aid for regional cooperation projects (e.g., on the Aral Sea or trade facilitation) whose economic benefits appear positive. Bilateral aid flows to Central Asia have been dominated by geopolitical rather than economic considerations, and have been at best narrowly national in focus and at worst regionally divisive.

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  • Richard Pomfret, 2007. "Coordinating Aid for Regional Cooperation Projects: The Experience of Central Asia," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2007-48, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:rp2007-48
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    1. Kakhkharov, Jakhongir, 2007. "Regional Cooperation in Central Asia: Viewpoint from Uzbekistan," MPRA Paper 64130, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Kakhkharov, Jakhongir, 2013. "Central Asian Security and Water/ Energy Relations between Uzbekistan and Tajikistan," MPRA Paper 64024, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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