Household Incomes in Central Asia: The Case of Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
2009 (English)In: Eurasian geography and economics, ISSN 1538-7216, E-ISSN 1938-2863, Vol. 50, no 3, p. 327-347Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Two European geographers present the findings of a sizeable survey (n = 7,5 15) providing a detailed geographical analysis of household incomes and reliance on personal subsidiary garden plots across Kazakhstan. The authors focus on assessing the extent to which Kazakhstan's rising GDP during the post-Soviet period has coincided with an increase in the general population's personal income and ability to secure adequate food supplies for personal consumption. The fine geographical scale of analysis of the survey data (significantly less coarse than oblast-level data) enabled them to identify regions characterized by "trickle-down" income, largely centered on the country's two main urban centers and areas of resource exploitation. The patterns revealed in the paper have relevance to the debate concerning the uneven distribution of benefits from resource exploitation (notably oil and gas) to Kazakhstan's population.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2009. Vol. 50, no 3, p. 327-347
Keywords [en]
Kazakhstan, Kazakhs, Russians, household income, subsistence minimum, income inequality, garden plots, oil and gas industry, oil prices, trickle-down effect, post-transition economy, economic crisis
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:sh:diva-9685DOI: 10.2747/1539-7216.50.3.327ISI: 000266858200005Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-67649946604OAI: oai:DiVA.org:sh-9685DiVA, id: diva2:428550
2011-06-302011-06-302017-12-11Bibliographically approved