Energy Rents, Remittances and Regional Trade Cooperation in Central Asia
Ostrowski, W. and Malikov, A. 2025. Energy Rents, Remittances and Regional Trade Cooperation in Central Asia. Europe-Asia Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2025.2512119
Ostrowski, W. and Malikov, A. 2025. Energy Rents, Remittances and Regional Trade Cooperation in Central Asia. Europe-Asia Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2025.2512119
| Title | Energy Rents, Remittances and Regional Trade Cooperation in Central Asia |
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| Type | Journal article |
| Authors | Ostrowski, W. and Malikov, A. |
| Abstract | This article analyses the relationship between energy rents, remittances and regional trade cooperation in Central Asia. The study shows that access to energy rents makes governments of energy-rich Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan reluctant to expand regional trade cooperation, while remittances earned by citizens of the resource-poor Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan disincentivise elites of those countries from working towards cooperation. Furthermore, the study demonstrates that Uzbekistan, which sits between two sets of cases due to depleting resources and unstable remittance inflows, is most likely to push for regional connectivity. Our findings are confirmed by the gravity model of trade and have implications for the studies of regional cooperation in other parts of the world. |
| Keywords | Central Asia |
| co-operation | |
| rentierism | |
| remittances | |
| Uzbekistan | |
| Journal | Europe-Asia Studies |
| ISSN | 0966-8136 |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2025.2512119 |