Rural Nonfarm Employment and International Migration as Alternatives to Agricultural Employment: the Case of Kyrgyzstan
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v AKNOWLEDGMENTS First and foremost I would like to express my immense gratitude to my supervisors Marrit van den Berg and Adam Szirmai. Marrit van den Berg supported and helped me at all stages of a PhD marathon. I am very thankful that you agreed to be my supervisor without knowing me. You have been always ready to help and I could never imagine that it would be possible to receive answers to thirty emails during one day. Your thorough comments, suggestions, and constructive critique not only helped to improve the quality of the thesis tremendously, but also helped to develop my skills and knowledge useful for my future research carrier. I also want to thank you for offering me a nice opportunity to spend almost half of a year at Wageningen University taking courses and working over different pieces of my dissertation. That was very helpful to me. Adam Szirmai played a crucial role in finalization of all articles and the manuscript as a whole. I am very thankful for your careful, constrictive and very professional feedback. You always identified and challenged weak points in the dissertation which helped me to avoid many serious mistakes. Thank you for your moral support as well. This meant a lot to me. It was a pleasure to work with you and to learn from you. I am very grateful to members of the Reading Committee Prof. dr. for reading my dissertation and for useful suggestions and comments which helped to finalise it. I also thank all people who contributed to this thesis through providing useful comments and suggestions during different stages of the manuscript preparation: I would also like to thank all people who created and have been running Maastricht Graduate School of Governance. Thank you for giving me a chance to join the School and providing all necessary conditions to finish the dissertation. Each of you helped me to achieve the main goal through different ways. and Seda. Thank you for all unforgettable moments we had. I will miss you my friends. I will also remember nice friends and colleagues from other cohorts as well. Special thanks to you Henry, Jessica, Melissa, Treena, Victor for your support and help when I needed. vi Thank you, Sachin for your hospitality and friendship. Your place was a harbour for me and I could rely on you in any circumstances. I will never forget …
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