Jim Webster writes

But let us look at it rationally.
1) there isn't a lot of point of them trying to do anything agricultural
because even if they get the land right and yields up they are still just
subsistance peasants producing commodity product. I cannot imagine there
being a market for Tajik grain beer or melons.

It's cotton. Takes all the essential irrigation water, trashes the
environment. Ex-soviet megafarms, apparently.

2) I would suspect that educational level/literacy is pretty good

I don't know, but I suspect not.

so they
would happily train up to work in pretty well any industry. At the moment
they would doubtless undercut pretty well most other labour pools.

No, because it's a full time job getting water, firewood and basic
foods.

3) With money coming in they have the money behind them to start improving
their land, some will buy or rent more, some will give up the land
altogether because they make enough from their job.

I think they are currently several stages earlier than this.

4) It needs some investment at the start of the process and for the first
generation it can be tough, but things improve and you end up with a
prosperous urban society with good medical care and adequate food for
everyone. It's called the industrial revolution and worked for us.

Trouble is you are competing with china.
Which has vastly superior infrastructure and is apparently stable
politically.

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