Soviet interrepublican capital transfers and the republics' level of development, 1966?1991

Economic reforms in Kyrgyzstan

“…All of these transfer mechanisms led to a significant flow of national income from the "wealthy" republics (primarily Russia, but also the Ukraine and Belarus) to the "poor" ones. According to the estimates of G. van Selm and E. Dölle (1993), in the Kyrgyz case these transfers generally represented over 10 percent of national income produced for the period 1966-1991 (with the exception of 1983-1985) and, beginning in 1988, over 20 percent of national income produced (in 1989 this ratio reached its apogee at a level of 28.6 percent). Estimating the balance of trade in interrepublican turnover using world prices, the same authors found that Kyrgyzstan received capital transfers representing 15.28 percent of GDP in 1988.…”