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- Title
POLITICAL ECONOMY OF KYRGYZSTAN'S DOMESTIC (IN) STABILITY.
- Authors
Tchantouridzé, Lasha
- Abstract
Kyrgyzstan experienced sets of violent uprisingsespeciallysince 2005. In 2010, it was overwhelmed byethnic violence between the Kyrgyz majority and the Uzbek minority groups, squarely because of miscalculated and misguided policy directions from the trans-national funding agencies, say for instance, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Trade Organisation (WTO). Abrupt initiative of transition from the centuries old tradition of collectivist land tenure stewardship and management, to a privatized and individualized land ownership system,forged social dislocation and political anger in an otherwise traditionally well-balanced and peaceful society. Paradoxically, there was no urgent need for the Kyrgyz government to carry out such agricultural reforms at the behest of an agency that had really no knowledge of local conditions. In this paper, the author examines changes in land tenures and their cascading impact on the country's profile. It further argues that the key variable in Kyrgyzstan's social and political disruption has been unwise, abrupt, and rushed state policies of agricultural land distribution and privatization.
- Subjects
FORMER Soviet republics; KYRGYZSTAN; KYRGYZSTAN economy; ETHNIC conflict; TRANSITION economies; AGRICULTURAL economics; LAND reform; KYRGYZSTAN politics &; government; TWENTY-first century; HISTORY
- Publication
Journal of Central Asian Studies, 2011, Vol 20, Issue 1, p89
- ISSN
0975-086X
- Publication type
Article