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State Anticorruption Legal Framework and Business Climate in Uzbekistan: Legal and Practical Challenges
No full textRegionalisation of International Initiatives : Case Study of the Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG)
No full textThe Eurasian Group on Combating Money Laundering and Financing of Terrorism (EAG), as a Financial Action Task Force (FATF)–style regional body (FSRB), synchronises national legislations across Central Asia to combat money laundering and financing terrorism through FATF mechanisms, aiming to eliminate external stresses on large economies. However, the hardening of FATF’s soft law approach through establishing power relationships with international organisations and several states, as well as mutual evaluation practices has been questioned given the imposition of minority interests on the majority through involvement in FATF activities. But, the role of individual states in FSRB activities, which directly coordinates the anti-money laundering and combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) regime in the region, has received scant scholarly attention. Thus, using open-source data from the official EAG website and its mutual evaluation reports, I evaluated the level of participation of member-states in its activities. My analysis revealed the dominance of one state (the Russian Federation) in EAG activities, despite the presence of other economically strong member-states (China and India). This chapter shows that flexible FATF governance practices, aimed at synchronising national AML/CFT legislation, can enable dominant economies to influence regional territories aligned with their geopolitical interests
The Political Economy of Central Asian Law
Get PDFThis open-access book provides fresh and much-needed insights into the interconnections between law, society and governance in Central Asia. By taking the interdisciplinary perspective of law and society, the book explores the social life of law and legal institutions in Central Asia in broader terms, encompassing not only the state legal system and institutions but also various informal (non-legal) forms of normative ordering. The topics covered within this book will be of interest to many scholars considering various theoretical and methodological challenges in studying law, governance, and informality in authoritarian regime contexts such as Central Asia. Considering interdisciplinary approaches taken within the volume, we aim to reach out to the students and scholars within the following disciplines and fields of study. • Central Asian Studies • Communist and post-communist studies • Anthropology: Economic Anthropology, Legal Anthropology, Anthropology of Law • Business sciences • Socio-legal studies • Transnational Politics and Governance • Law and economic
The Political Economy of Central Asian Law
No full textThis open-access book provides fresh and much-needed insights into the interconnections between law, society and governance in Central Asia. By taking the interdisciplinary perspective of law and society, the book explores the social life of law and legal institutions in Central Asia in broader terms, encompassing not only the state legal system and institutions but also various informal (non-legal) forms of normative ordering. The topics covered within this book will be of interest to many scholars considering various theoretical and methodological challenges in studying law, governance, and informality in authoritarian regime contexts such as Central Asia. Considering interdisciplinary approaches taken within the volume, we aim to reach out to the students and scholars within the following disciplines and fields of study. • Central Asian Studies • Communist and post-communist studies • Anthropology: Economic Anthropology, Legal Anthropology, Anthropology of Law • Business sciences • Socio-legal studies • Transnational Politics and Governance • Law and economic
The Political Economy of Central Asian Law
Get PDFThis open-access book provides fresh and much-needed insights into the interconnections between law, society and governance in Central Asia. By taking the interdisciplinary perspective of law and society, the book explores the social life of law and legal institutions in Central Asia in broader terms, encompassing not only the state legal system and institutions but also various informal (non-legal) forms of normative ordering. The topics covered within this book will be of interest to many scholars considering various theoretical and methodological challenges in studying law, governance, and informality in authoritarian regime contexts such as Central Asia. Considering interdisciplinary approaches taken within the volume, we aim to reach out to the students and scholars within the following disciplines and fields of study. • Central Asian Studies • Communist and post-communist studies • Anthropology: Economic Anthropology, Legal Anthropology, Anthropology of Law • Business sciences • Socio-legal studies • Transnational Politics and Governance • Law and economic
Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe
Get PDFThis book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be innovative and transnational, have found their niches outside formal processes and structures. The book provides a thorough theoretical introduction to the link between labour mobility and informality and comprises convincing case studies from a wide range of post-socialist countries. Overall, it highlights the importance of trust, transnational networks, and digital technologies in settings where the rules governing economic and social activities of mobile workers are often unclear and flexible
Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe
No full textThis book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be innovative and transnational, have found their niches outside formal processes and structures. The book provides a thorough theoretical introduction to the link between labour mobility and informality and comprises convincing case studies from a wide range of post-socialist countries. Overall, it highlights the importance of trust, transnational networks, and digital technologies in settings where the rules governing economic and social activities of mobile workers are often unclear and flexible
The Struggle for Formal Work:The Everyday Experiences of Russia’s Central Asian Labour Migrants
Get PDFThis chapter explores the everyday problems Central Asian labour migrants face when trying to formalise their work practices in the Russian Federation reflecting the nature of employment and society in the country. An estimated of 3 to 4 million Central Asians work in Russia, many of them informally, placing Russia as the second largest recipient of labour migrants in the world. Hitherto underexplored in the employment literature, the problems such migrants endure in the workplace reveal much about the problematic systems of labour governance that have developed in Russia after its move towards a market economy–based system. Even those entering the country on formal work permits or under the patent system find it extremely hard to work formally, due to the actions of employers and state authorities. This leaves them vulnerable to abuse, lacking safety at work, receiving low salaries and experiencing problems of nonpayment, as well as being unable to develop or advance their career in Russia. Whilst addressing issues around labour markets and precarity, this chapter also places such employer and state practices within emerging debates surrounding informal work practices. It also addresses issues that have arisen around increasing labour migration resulting from the current economic crisis as governments struggle to cope with increasing influx , thus enabling spaces of abuse to grow
Labour, Mobility and Informal Practices in Russia, Central Asia and Eastern Europe
Get PDFThis book explores the daily survival strategies of people within the context of failed states, flourishing informal economies, legal uncertainty, increased mobility, and globalization, where many people, who are forced by the circumstances to be innovative and transnational, have found their niches outside formal processes and structures. The book provides a thorough theoretical introduction to the link between labour mobility and informality and comprises convincing case studies from a wide range of post-socialist countries. Overall, it highlights the importance of trust, transnational networks, and digital technologies in settings where the rules governing economic and social activities of mobile workers are often unclear and flexible
Informal Welfare and Everyday Acts of Resistance to the State in Post-Soviet Central Asia. An Ethnographic Study of Mahalla Institutions in Rural Fergana, Uzbekistan
Get PDFThis paper aims to examine the processes and impact of welfare state retrenchment on state-society relations in post-Soviet Uzbekistan and how community-based welfare structures have evolved to respond to declining social welfare services, acting as an informal welfare structure given the failure of existing regime to address the structural inequalities and market defects during the transition period. It is argued that mahalla, a community-based governance structure originating from Central Asia’s Islamic past and administrative traditions, are now a key welfare structure that makes up for the incapacity of the state, offering alternative (to the state) forms of welfare support to the population. However, these developments have had far-reaching repercussions for state-society relations, state legitimacy and the political and social fabric of society in Uzbekistan. As the state retreated from its social welfare obligations, citizens are also retreating from their loyalty to the state by challenging the image, symbols and laws of the state and inventing informal means of ‘getting things done’. This paper suggests that citizens’ collective, mahalla- based informal income-generating activities and pooling of efforts are not only a survival strategy, but also they can be seen as citizens’ ‘everyday acts of the resistance to the state‘ in post-Soviet Uzbekistan
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