Towards a geography of window dressing and benign neglect: The state, donors and elites in Tajikistan’s trajectories of post-Soviet agrarian change

After three decades of post-Soviet agrarian change, farming structures in Tajikistan remain dynamic. Despite a centralised reform agenda pushed forward by international donors, the local implementation reforms has resulted striking differences across country. This paper investigates Tajikistan’s geography and political economy. We show that unevenness Tajik state’s power autonomy vis-à-vis societal actors been important bringing about stark (1) spatially, between regions, (2) policy design selected statistical indicators on one hand, policies’ sluggish other.