How where you live in Turkmenistan determines your access to resources and opportunities. Summary: Person’s place of birth and residence determine how much development they experience. Ashgabat outperforms all...
Summary: Turkmenistan loses 16.9% of its human development due to inequalities which are mainly driven by inequalities in income and life expectancy. The richest 1% of the people in Turkmenistan hold 19.9% of the income...
Potentially 8% of Turkmenistan’s annual GDP. The government of Turkmenistan aggressively restricts access to the Internet, prompting an urgent need to evaluate the economic ramifications of such restrictions. The...
Dominated by government-supported NGOs (GONGOs), Turkmenistan’s legal and political environment is antagonistic to the independent civic actors, who experience constant state-directed harassment, intimidation, and even...
Source: MICS 2019. Summary: While girls and boys in Turkmenistan are born equal, they grow up to unequal opportunities due to unfavorable cultural norms, societal expectations and government policies. The status of...
This is the second article in a series examining human development in Turkmenistan. The first article assessed the level of human development while the next articles focus on complementary metrics that examine...
The policy brief “The regulation of the Internet in Turkmenistan” analyses the discrepancies between the Internet governance legal framework and government practices in Turkmenistan. The law “On legal regulation of the...
We are proud of our partnerships and our recent accomplishments. We would like to provide an update and share the news with our dedicated readers and supporters at Saglyk.org and Progres.online in Turkmenistan. Progres...
Summary: Although Turkmenistan ranks ‘high’ on the Human Development Index, a closer look at the index reveals poor outcomes in health, education and standard of living. Turkmenistan has the lowest life expectancy in...
TurkmenNet remains slow, expensive and highly restricted with the majority of the world’s IP addresses remaining blocked. Internet blockade persisted throughout 2023. While the right to information is guaranteed...
