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Uzbekistan and World Bank to Expand Strategic Partnership
Anna, Bjerde, World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia, visited Uzbekistan from September 29 to October 2, 2022, as part of a...
Shanghai Cooperation Organization: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
On September 15 and 16, 2022, the extended format of participants of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) are scheduled to meet in Samarkand, the...
Unintended Consequences: A heyday for the geopolitics of Eurasian transport
When Russia invaded Ukraine, it took itself off the map of Eurasian transport corridors linking China and Europe. At the same time, it breathed...
Key Opportunities for Uzbekistan’s Development
The World Bank has released its new Systematic Country Diagnostic (SCD) report for Uzbekistan, which analyzes key challenges and opportunities for the country’s development....
New ISIS Strategy and the Resurgence of Islamic State Khorasan
Unlike Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi, the second late leader of ISIS, who was derided as a “secluded paper caliph” and “an unknown nobody” for...
U.S. Hunts Central Asian Salafi-Jihadi Groups
The US Department of the Treasury and the State Department successfully and effectively conduct counter-terrorism operations against ISIS and al-Qaeda-affiliated Central Asian Salafi-Jihadi groups,...
Farmers in Uzbekistan to Get Better Access to Finance
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a $200 million financing package for the Second Rural Enterprise Development Project (REDP) aimed at...
Uzbekistan’s National Statistical System to Modernize with World Bank Support
The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a $50 million concessional credit for Uzbekistan that will finance a five-year project supporting the...
Ukrainian ripples: Turkey and Israel eye extended cooperation in Central Asia
A recent dinner in Washington suggests that a seemingly forthcoming visit to Turkey by Israeli President Isaac Herzog could be about more than putting...
Central Asia Needs to Promote Women Politicians
Hidden from the world’s attention, with its five “stans” and 79 million people, Central Asia has been a region of democratic growth after the...