Labor Migrant Households in Uzbekistan: Remittances as a Challenge or Blessing?

Central Asia Fellowship Papers No. 11, September 2015

By Farrukh Irnazarov

Mr. Farrukh Irnazarov is a Country Director at the Central Asian Development Institute, Tashkent, Uzbekistan. He is also completing his PhD in Institutional Economics at the University of Groningen, Netherlands. In 2014, he was a Visiting Researcher at the Johns Hopkins University, Washington, DC, USA. He is in charge of several research projects on economic development, labor migration, regional trade, and transport issues in Central Asia. Mr. Irnazarov holds a BA in International Economic Relations from the National University of Uzbekistan, Tashkent (2002), a Master of Social Science in International and European Relations from Linköping University, Sweden (2005), a Master of Science in Business Administration and Economics from Stockholm University, Sweden (2006).