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Trends in first union formation in post-Soviet Central Asia

open access: yes, 2009
This study used recently available survey data to examine trends in the rate of first union formation in the post-Soviet Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Clifford, D.
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Climate Vulnerability and Renewable Energy Consumption: The Moderating Role of Financial Development

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between climate vulnerability (CVUL) and renewable energy consumption (RECO) and tests the moderating effect of financial development (FD) on this relationship. The analysis is, particularly, relevant for the 162 panel countries observed between 1995 and 2022, which face diverse climate risks and exhibit ...
Sorin Gabriel Anton
wiley   +1 more source

Early Iron Age Pottery Technology of the Kazakh Uplands (Saryarqa)

open access: yesOriental Studies
Introduction. The article introduces the Early Iron Age pottery technology of the Kazakh Uplands (Kaz. Saryarqa ‘Yellow Ridge’). Goals. The study seeks to identify common and specific features inherent to pottery traditions traced in ceramics from ...
Valeriy G. Loman
doaj   +1 more source

Leading Sustainable Competitive Advantage From Within: An Analysis of the Mining Industry

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainability has emerged as a critical global challenge, compelling industries to integrate environmental considerations into their core strategies. The main objective of this study is to examine the direct influence of green transformational leadership and the mediating roles of green knowledge management and green motivation in achieving a
Zhadyra Konurbayeva   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

How are Oil Revenues redistributed in an Oil Economy? The case of Kazakhstan [PDF]

open access: yes
Kazakhstan’s economy has been driven by an oilboom since the discovery of large new oilfields coincided with the upturn of world oil prices after 1998. This paper uses national household expenditure survey data to examine whether Kazakhstan’s experience ...
Richard Pomfret   +3 more
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Les pays d’Asie centrale. Kazakhstan

open access: yes, 2011
Par sa superficie, le Kazakhstan est le deuxième plus grand pays de l’ex-URSS (2,7 millions de kilomètres carré) et il possède la plus importante économie de l’Asie centrale. Situé entre deux géants économiques (la Russie et la Chine), c’est un pays émergent à fort potentiel de développement.
Bukayeva, Tursyn, Guellec, Jean
openaire   +1 more source

Farm restructuring and agricultural recovery in Kazakhstan's grain region: An update [PDF]

open access: yes
Against the rising global concern of how to achieve sustainable output expansion in food, we document the main outcomes of post-Soviet agricultural recovery and restructuring in the Kazakhstan grain region. Together with an expansion of cropland area and
Wandel, Jürgen   +2 more
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Sustainable Foreign Direct Investment in Emerging Markets: The Institutional Drivers of Firms' Climate Action

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how home‐ and host‐country institutions jointly shape the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on firms' climate action commitments (CAC) in emerging markets. Drawing on New Institutional Economics and Varieties of Capitalism, we conceptualize FDI as a mechanism of institutional transmission through which multinational
Jose Pla‐Barber, David Tobón‐Orozco
wiley   +1 more source

Does Economic Growth Drive Equitable Water and Sanitation Access? Assessing Inequality Reduction Across 64 Nations

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines whether economic growth reduces inequalities in access to water and sanitation across 64 countries over an average period of 13.5 years. Drawing on disaggregated data by income quintiles and rural–urban location, and employing ordinary least squares (OLS), two‐stage least squares (2SLS), and Seemingly Unrelated Regression
Marcos García‐López   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

FARM RESTRUCTURING IN KAZAKHSTAN: AN INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS APPROACH

open access: yes
Broad institutional changes, which occurred after Kazakhstan separated from the Soviet Union in 1991, direct performance in the agricultural sector by either creating costs for farmers or shifting costs away.
Cormier, Kelley
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