Borderless bazaars and regional integration in Central Asia : emerging patterns of trade and cross-border cooperation / Bartlomiej Kaminski and Saumya Mitra.

"Trade that straddles borders in Central Asia plays a vital role in the livelihoods of border communities and buttresses prosperity in often poor regions. By strengthening commercial ties, cultural understanding and deepening community relationships, border trade nurtures amicable relations bet...

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Main Authors: Kamiński, Bartłomiej, 1944- (Author), Mitra, Saumya, 1951- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington : World Bank Publications, 2012.
Series:Directions in development (Washington, D.C.)
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490 1 |a Directions in Development 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
520 |a "Trade that straddles borders in Central Asia plays a vital role in the livelihoods of border communities and buttresses prosperity in often poor regions. By strengthening commercial ties, cultural understanding and deepening community relationships, border trade nurtures amicable relations between neighboring countries. This book examines the characteristics of trade intermediated by a network of bazaars in Central Asia and its significance for local economies. It uncovers the dynamic phenomenon of bazaars in propelling trade. Bazaars were invented in central Asia centuries ago; in their modern form, as highly flexible and low cost centers for trade, endowed with modern sophisticated logistics, bazaars provide a channel parallel to that of formal trade. Bazaars play major roles in regional and national chains of production and distribution with national networks strongly integrated and overlapping across Central Asian economies. They are the major agents for border trade, which fights poverty by cheapening products and by creating employment opportunities, especially for women. The book examines the public policy implications of bazaar or non-standard trade and actions that could be taken to foster such trade. A light regulatory touch and a low fiscal burden would help fight poverty. Improvements in the business climate and elimination of harassment of traders by local officials as well as easing conditions for the movement of peoples and vehicles would be hugely beneficial. But this book goes beyond trade. It considers the potential for border community cooperation in a variety of activities, public services, and shared infrastructure, culture that could yield rich dividends and make meaningless borders as separators of human activities. It examines the example of border cooperation in Europe through Euroregios as a model for Central Asia. Finally, the book concludes with a series of recommendations for public authorities intended to deepen border trade and cooperation."--Publisher's web site 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
505 0 |a Preface; Acknowledgments; About the Authors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Overview; Characteristics of Trade Flows; Figures; 1.1 Taxonomy of Trade Flows in Central Asia; Tables; 1.1 The Kyrgyz Republic Trade Flows through Standard and Non-Standard Channels, 2005-10; Barriers to and Benefits of Trade through the Bazaar Channel; 1.2 Aggregate Consumer Goods Imports Not Reported in Trade Statistics of Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic; China's Share of These Imports, 2005-10; Role of Bazaars in Economic Development and Integration; Deepening Border Development Cooperation; Notes. 
505 8 |a 2.1 Layouts of Two Afghanistan-Tajikistan Border-Crossing PointsGovernment-Imposed Obstacles; 2.4 Capacity of Surveyed Border-Crossing Points, June 2007; Boxes; 2.1 Visa Cost Eliminates Prospect of Border Exchanges; Conclusion; Notes; References; Chapter 3 Border Trade at the "Periphery": Afghanistan's Trade with Tajikistan and Uzbekistan; Afghanistan's Trade with Other CAREC Members: Studies of Two BCPs; 3.1 Afghanistan's Trade with Tajikistan; Hairatan BCP: Untapped Potential for Cross-Border Trade; 3.1 Design of Hairatan Border Facilities; Afghanistan-Tajikistan and Hairatan BCPs Compared. 
505 8 |a 3.2 People and Vehicles through Hairatan and Sher Khan Bandar, Afghanistan3.2 Design of the Sher Khan Bandar Border Crossing Point; Welfare Cost of Barriers to Afghanistan's Border Trade; Note; References; Chapter 4 The Dynamism of Bazaars; Survey Methodology: Sample and Method; Bazaar Characteristics; 4.1 Type and Country of Bazaars Surveyed; 4.2 Barakholka, Kazakhstan, Bazaar Monthly Sales and Cost Estimates per Sales Outlet and Total; 4.1 Linkages between International and City Bazaars; 4.3 Selected Income-Related Characteristics of Surveyed Bazaars, 2008. 
505 8 |a Employment and Income-Generating Effects of Bazaars4.4 Estimates of Annualized Fixed Costs at Surveyed Bazaars, 2008; Other Positive Externalities of Bazaars: The Untold Story of Kyrgyz Garments; 4.5 Officially Reported Clothing Exports in the Kyrgyz Statistics and Clothing Imports from the Kyrgyz Republic in Other Countries' Statistics; 4.1 Kyrgyz Textiles and Clothing Output: Official Statistics vs. Estimates, 2005-10; Conclusions Regarding the Importance of Bazaars; Notes; References; Chapter 5 Cross-Border Trade through Bazaars; Sources of Bazaar Goods and Foreign Sales. 
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650 7 |a International economic integration  |2 fast 
651 7 |a Central Asia  |2 fast 
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