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Public
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Research and
Training Seminars
1992-2001
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Tashkent Seminar
on Agriculture and
Water, May
1992
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In May 1992, Gregory
Gleason in collaboration with Duke
University organized
a training session in modern agricultural and water management practices at
the University
of World Economics
and Diplomacy in Tashkent,
Uzbekistan.
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Biskhek Seminar
on Public Policy
April 1993
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In April 1993 Gregory
Gleason and Bakhtiar Atabaev
(Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences) organized a training session in public
policy and public administration at the Kyrgyz National
University in
Bishkek.
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Hujand Seminar
November 1994
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In
November 1994, Gregory Gleason (University of New Mexico, Zohreh Ghavamshahidi
(University of Wisconsin), and Bakhtiar Atabaev (Uzbekistan Academy of Sciences) organized and
participated in a seminar on regional integration held in Hujand Tajikistan.
Fifteen scholars participated in the seminar, including two from the
U.S.,
three from Uzbekistan
and seven from Tajikistan. The Tajikistan Center
for Management co-sponsored the seminar.
The Hujand seminar focused attention on
two pressing areas of economic and scientific concern: 1) regional
integration and 2) sectoral integration. Plans were drawn to sponsor regional
seminars to encourage communication among scholars and policy makers
regarding the dangers of autarkic regional competitions. Plans were drawn to sponsor sectoral integration seminars to bring physical
scientists, engineers, and scholars together to explore ways of applying
the resources of the research and development communities to the solution
of practical production problems.
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Yekaterinburg Seminar
March 1996
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On
March 5, 1996,
the Russian Academy of Sciences Institute of
Philosophy and Law, located in Ekaterinburg, Russia,
sponsored a one-day seminar for twelve Institute specialists. The seminar was devoted to the discussion
of the impact of globalization on local and municipal financial practice in
the Ural region of Russia.
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Almaty Seminar
March 1998
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On
April 1-2, 1998,
the Asian Development Bank sponsored a two workshop on infrastructure needs
in transportation. The workshop was
held at the Kazakhstan
Institute of Management and Planning in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Twenty representatives from the Kazakhstan
government, private trading parties, personnel from government research
institutes, and academic researchers participated in the workshop.
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Bishkek Seminar
August 1998
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International
economic cooperation is typically affected by a number of factors,
including government-imposed barriers to trade, fluctuations in exchange
rates, physical infrastructure for transportation and communication, and a
host of non-economic factors such as national historical and cultural
ties. The borders among many of the
countries of Central Asia are of recent
origin. Their significance in terms
of international cooperation differs from case to case in relation to the
above factors. One of the most
promising opportunities for policy simplification is the case of trading
relations between Kazakstan and Kyrgyzstan. For a brief period in 1995, Kazakstan and Kyrgyzstan began developing
customs facilities at their border, but an executive agreement brought that
to an end in the late spring 1995.
The subsequent Quadrapartite customs
agreement, the Tri-state Central Asian
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customs agreement, and the parallel efforts
at WTO accession have produced a transparent border between Kazakstan and Kyrgyzstan. There are some
continuing issues of policy coordination, primarily relating trucking and
shipping policies, freight bonding, and other insurance policies. But serious policy incompatibilities
largely have been eliminated. For
these reasons, the Kazakstan-Kyrgyzstan border is
generally regarded as the most cooperative and open border in the Central
Asian subregion.
Recognizing this achievement, the Asian Development Bank sponsored a
one-day workshop in Bishkek Kazakstan on Kazakstan-Krygyzstan trade cooperation. The workshop, held on August 14, 1998 at the Academy of Management of the President of the Kyrgyz Republic, brought together forty-two
government officials, traders, transporters, tourism specialists,
representatives of non-governmental organizations, and representatives of
multilateral donor organizations.
See
the Report on Trade
Cooperation published by the Asian Development Bank.
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Yekaterinburg Seminar
May 2000
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The Urals State
Technical University
in Ekaterinburg,
Russia and
the University
of New Mexico (Albuquerque, USA) cooperated to offer a
four-day symposium on public
private
partnerships. The goal of the symposium was to explore new opportunities
for cooperation between the public and private sectors. The symposium
featured public officials, business people, scholars and analysts from the Russian Federation
and the USA.
The symposium included 50 participants from leading research institutions
in the Russian
Federation and the Republic of Kazakhstan. This seminar was made possible by a
university partnership sponsored by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural
Affairs of the U.S. Department of State.
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Workshops on Energy in
Eurasia
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The purpose of this project is to
develop capacity to facilitate the reintegration of the Russian, Central
Asian, and Chinese electric grids.
The multilateral donor community has been encouraging the
governments of the region to develop a region-wide energy market. The goal of reintegrating the previously
separated electric grids was formally announced by the governments of the
region in summer 2000. In summer 2001 the grids were physically connected. This project assists Central Asian
educational institutions in Kazakhstan,
Russia
and Tajikistan
in developing capacity in law, economics, and business in order to prepare
for the public sector implications of reintegration.
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