New UNFPA data suggests young people in Eastern Europe and Central Asia have not given up on children, but life keeps getting in the way. Young people across Eastern...
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Brutal regimes rarely want for trading partners. The Taliban are only the latest to find that strategy and commerce outlast moral objection. Gul Hassan, the...
Governments in Europe and Central Asia are spending heavily on steering their economies. They are mostly pointing in the wrong direction. The World Bank rarely minces...
A new World Bank report reveals that Eastern Europe and Central Asia is trading 45 per cent below potential. The reshoring bonanza was supposed to be Central and Eastern...
The legacy of the recent Samarkand Summit lies in the practical implementation of its decisions: investments that create jobs, educational exchanges that build capacity...
In a dramatic pivot from decades of economic isolation, Uzbekistan has placed 1.68 billion US dollars worth of state assets into foreign hands. Uzbekistan this week took...
Investors are becoming more selective, more cautious, and more data-driven than ever before. Locations need to step up. Foreign direct investment has long been framed as...
Central Asia’s venture ecosystem is reaching a new level, positioning the region as an increasingly significant player on the global venture map. Central Asia’s tech...
To achieve high-income status, middle-income countries in Europe and Central Asia must prioritise reforms that will foster the infusion of capital, knowledge, and...
The states of Central Asia are awash with oil, gas, and precious minerals. Yet in an era of shifting global markets and the inexorable march towards renewable energy...
Soviet-influenced curricula excelled at producing specialists in subjects that served centrally planned economies. As Central Asia’s economies reinvent themselves...
Central Asia’s cities remain unique, shaped by histories that link Turkic, Persian, Russian, and Soviet legacies. The question is whether their evolution can be guided...
From Ukraine’s ongoing resilience in the face of Russia’s brutal aggression to rigged elections in Georgia, political stalemate in Bulgaria, and the shooting of...