American think-tank the Heritage Foundation computes the “Index of Economic Freedom” on an annual basis. The foundation’s report for 2023 includes a short chapter on Turkmenistan’s performance with regards to economic...
The number of cards issued by the banks in Turkmenistan has been growing over the last five years. According to the Central Bank of Turkmenistan, the total number of cards issued by banks increased from 3,190,819 units...
Pro-government news outlets in Turkmenistan regularly cover and highlight the country’s global ranking for having the cheapest gasoline prices. In 2022, Turkmenportal published five news articles citing data from...
Huawei is the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer and the second-largest manufacturer of smartphones in the world. While Huawei has been operating in Turkmenistan for over 20 years, little is known about...
Turkmenistan may be the only country that provided free electricity for such a long time and it continues to provide highly subsidized cheap electricity with the lowest electricity prices in the world at 2.5 TMT per 100...
According to Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index, Turkmenistan continues to struggle with endemic corruption and is showing no signs of improvement in 2022. What is the Corruption Perception Index...
Summary Since 2015 Turkmenistan has been implementing import-substitution policies which came into force during the foreign currency shortages and the emergence of the black-market exchange rate. In this policy brief...
Understanding Internet access in Turkmenistan. Despite the fact that the UN has declared and affirmed that access to the Internet is a basic human right, citizens of Turkmenistan are unable to practice and enjoy this...
Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan are both former Soviet nations that are rich in hydrocarbons and yet they have radically different approaches towards transparency in extractive industries. In the paper Geopolitics and...
National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) published a working paper with Wellbeing Rankings for 215 geographical locations using data from the Gallup World Poll and the US Daily Tracker Poll for 2008-2017. These...
