Recent advances in techniques, especially the intraneuronal injection of the enzyme
horseradish peroxidase, have led to a new era in our understanding of spinal cord structure …

This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and
analyzed in the period 1991–2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible …

Libman and Obydenkova reveal how legacies of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
(CPSU) have survived in the politics, economic development, culture, and society of post …

Remittance inflows have been recorded as the second major external source of finance after
ODA and an important source of funds for growth in South Asian countries. This review …

In the wider scientific debate, post-Soviet Central Asia has been primarily known for the
question in what ways this region currently experiences a 'New Great Game'of geostrategy …

More money now flows into developing countries from the remittances of labor migrants than
from official foreign aid. To make use of these crucial inflows, migrants rely upon …

To what extent can workers in developing countries seize gains from trade? To answer this
question we resort to a unique exogenous labor demand shock triggered by a surge in the …

In this paper we investigate the growth and use of social remittances in Tajikistan. Russia
became the destination country of choice for labor migrants from former Soviet states …

We study the relationship between migration and children's education in Tajikistan–one of
the poorest and most remittance-dependent economies in the world. The analysis of a …

Scholarship linking migration with recession has focused on the responses by migrants to
deteriorating economic and cultural conditions. This paper argues for a broader reading of …