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Government stakeholders in the Central Asian countries have largely acknowledged the existence of significant corruption risks – including bribery, embezzlement and bid rigging – in their secondary and tertiary education systems. These undermine the...

This paper presents the specific features of the higher education system of Uzbekistan, which has a sizable corruption problem.

Twenty years into independence, Uzbekistan's Soviet past still remains a politically painful and academically underexamined subject, resulting in major gaps in the historical narratives of the society. The government of the newly independent nation...

In Europe and Central Asia, the radical shift in economic and political systems that occurred in most countries after 1990 made existing forms of corruption more visible and opened opportunities for new forms of corrupt practices. Fostering...

This paper presents the specific features of the higher education system of Uzbekistan, which has a sizable corruption problem.

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, some 25 countries began their dramatic transformation into market-based economies by liberalizing prices, dismantling the remaining instruments of Soviet-type central planning, and starting fundamental structural...