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The Soviet period saw the development of a significant public kindergarten system in Central Asia. About a half of children in the target age group in 1991 attended kindergartens in Kazakhstan, over 40 per cent in Uzbekistan, and around a third in Kyrgyzstan. Within the kindergarten system — as with other types of social service — state-owned enterprises (including collective farms) had traditionally been major providers of facilities, reflecting the dual productive and welfare functions of enterprises. Indeed, municipal kindergartens (those run by the Ministry of Education) accounted for only a quarter of total kindergartens in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in 1991 and a third in Uzbekistan.
1. This research was supported by the World Bank’s ‘Women in Development’ Fund. We are grateful to Kinnon Scott for help with the 1994 Kazakhstan Labour Force Survey data, and Valeri Tian and Olga Gomeleva for background research on Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan respectively.
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Klugman, J., Marnie, S., Micklewright, J., O’Keefe, P. (1997). The Impact of Kindergarten Divestiture on Household Welfare in Central Asia. In: Falkingham, J., Klugman, J., Marnie, S., Micklewright, J. (eds) Household Welfare in Central Asia. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25475-0_10
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