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- O'Hara, Sarah, et al.
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Household Incomes in Central Asia : The Case of Post-Soviet Kazakhstan
- 2009
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Ingår i: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 50:3, s. 327-347
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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- O'Hara, Sarah, et al.
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The Impact of Global Economic Crisis on Remittances in the Commonwealth of Independent States
- 2009
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Ingår i: Eurasian geography and economics. - : Informa UK Limited. - 1538-7216 .- 1938-2863. ; 50:4, s. 447-463
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Two European geographers and an economist analyze the impact of the 2008-2009 global economic recession on remittances in the Commonwealth of Independent States. Drawing on balance-of-payments data as well as information on money transfers to and from the region, they detail the annual growth of remittances since 2001, illustrating the growing importance of this income stream to a number of countries in the region. Using quarterly data, they then provide details of the impact of the financial crisis on remittances starting with the 2007 credit crunch and intensifying with the collapse of global markets in 2008. Based on the impact of the 1998 Russian Crisis, they suggest that by 2012, remittances to the region could fall to only one-third the 2008 level, and that a return to pre-crisis levels of remittances could take almost a decade.
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- Rafiqui, Pernilla S., et al.
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Vientiane
- 2009
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Ingår i: Cities. - : Elsevier BV. - 0264-2751 .- 1873-6084. ; 26:1, s. 38-48
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Vientiane, the capital of the Lao People's Democratic Republic, is a small city that has experienced various rounds of socio-economic experimentation during the past few decades: currently, it is set in a capitalist economic context under the rule of a communist regime. With increasing connectivity to regional and global networks, the city has embarked on a far-reaching path of urban transformation. This city profile describes the historical influences affecting the spatial structure of Vientiane, the urban spatial structures and the land use patterns that have unfolded as a result of the economic liberalization that has been taking place since the late 1980s, as well as some salient aspects of the urban management process with respect to planning procedures.
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- Borén, Thomas, et al.
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Metropolitan Processes in Post-Communist States : An Introduction
- 2007
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Ingår i: Geografiska Annaler Series B: Human Geography. - 0435-3684. ; 89B:2, s. 95-110
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This introductory article identifies and discuss five key legacy aspects of post-Communism for the urban geography of Eastern and Central Europe. These are concerned with (1) central planning, (2) land allocation, (3) the second economy, (4) defence considerations, and (5) the implications of the ideological leadership of the communist parties. The discussion is based on the existing literature and on the five articles in this theme issue. The introduction ends with proposing a general evolutionary model for suburbanisation, and with some suggestions for further research within the field of post-Communist urban geography.
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- Bouzarovski, Stefan, et al.
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A socially resilient urban transition? : The contested landscapes of apartment building extensions in two post-communist cities
- 2011
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Ingår i: Urban Studies. - Harlow : Longman for the Univ. of Glasgow. - 0042-0980 .- 1360-063X. ; 48:13, s. 2689-2714
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Even though social processes across the globe are increasingly being theorised through a resilience lens, this has rarely been the case within the domain of everyday life in the city. The resilience debate also remains highly geographically selective, as regions that have undergone far-reaching systemic change over the past 20 years-including the post-communist states of the former Soviet Union and eastern and central Europe (ECE)-generally remain omitted from it. In order to address such knowledge gaps, an investigation is made of the relationships between social resilience and micro-level socio-spatial change in the built environment of the post-communist city, by focusing on the institutional, spatial and economic underpinnings of apartment building extensions (ABEs) on multistorey residential buildings in the Macedonian capital of Skopje and the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. Both cities contain a wide variety of ABEs, whose reinforced concrete frame constructions often rival the host buildings in terms of size and function. By exploring the architectural and social landscapes created by the extensions, it is hoped to highlight their embeddedness in a set of policy decisions and coping strategies, as well as their controversial implications on the present and future use of urban space.
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- Gentile, Michael, et al.
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No more work for Stakhanov : migrants and stayers in the depopulating Donbas, Ukraine
- 2012
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Ingår i: Urban geography. - : Informa UK Limited. - 0272-3638 .- 1938-2847. ; 33:3, s. 401-419
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Labor migration from the less to the more affluent cities and regions is a defining trait of the patterns of population redistribution in Central and Eastern Europe, especially in the former Soviet Union, where international disparities in income and living standards are particularly manifest. While these macro-trends are well portrayed in the literature, their outcome at the household level seldom figures in the literature. In Ukraine, labor out-migration to Russia is a frequently chosen strategy, not least because of the Russophone background of eastern Ukraine and of many of the major cities, including Kiev and Odessa. This out-migration contributes to urban decline. Using multivariate methods, we analyze the characteristics of population subgroups with and without the experience of working abroad. We also use descriptive statistics to assess the impact of migration events within households on the standard of living of the latter. Our data source is the city of Stakhanov Health Interview Survey 2009 (n = 3,000).
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