More: Tajikistan
Localism in Tajikistan: How would it affect Power Shift?
Localism has been a common characteristic of all post-Soviet Central Asian Republics. However, this trait emerged in different ways; the result has been almost...
Tajik opposition movement
Once fractured Tajik opposition has joined forces in Warsaw to challenge the regime in Dushanbe. Early September 2018, an opposition coalition of four Tajik...
Second phase of the Nurek Hydropower Rehabilitation Project in Tajikistan
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved additional grant financing of $50 million from the International Development Association (IDA) for the second phase...
Qassem Soleimani’s Broken Dream in Central Asia
Exactly two months ago, Iranian Major
General Qassem Soleimani was killed, whom the Shiite world considered a national hero, while the Sunni
regimes of the Arabian...
World Bank Supports Sustainable and Efficient Power Sector in Tajikistan
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today $134 million
in grant financing from the International Development Association for the Power
Utility Financial Recovery Project...
Iran looms large in Central Asia despite sanctions and Saudi financial muscle
Saudi Arabia may have been getting more than it bargained for when
authorities in Khujand, Tajikistan’s second largest city, ordered that the
city’s largest and most...
Preparing Dushanbe for a New Digital Era
“Preparing Dushanbe for a New
Digital Era” was the theme of a workshop held on February 4th and hosted
jointly by the Government of the Republic...
The Paradoxes of Social and Economic Development in Central Asia
Central Asia is
a region with very uneven social and economic dynamics. It is rapidly breaking
down into areas with different quality of life, economic growth,...
Prospects for the Fight against Extremism and Terrorism in the Central Asian Region
Central Asian countries experience diverse intersecting influences: they
feel changes in the situation in the Caucasus, in the Xinjiang autonomous
territory of China, in Afghanistan and...
How to Develop Tourism in Tajikistan?
An interview with Andrea Dall’Olio, Lead Financial Sector Economist at
the World Bank, about Tajikistan’s tourism potential and what the country can
do to respond to...