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...
Startup companies are a crucial part of boosting the Tajik economy. However, according to the report “Tajikistan: startups are needed, but conditions are lacking” by the Central Asian Bureau for Analytical Reporting...
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...
In their study Desire for children in Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan: son preference and perceived instrumentality for value satisfaction, published in 2001, Nuran Hortascu, Sharon S. Bastug, and Ovezdurdi B...
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...
Turkmen students are increasingly pursuing higher education abroad, seeking to return to Turkmenistan afterwards. However, according to the study published in 2017, Labor market integration of returned educational...
The average cost of cooking palaw in Ashgabat was 77.1 Turkmen manat in December 2022, which is -4.4% lower month-on-month (MoM) compared to the prices observed in November 2022 (80.6 manat) and 13.8% cheaper year-on...
Without census data, Turkmenistan cannot be well-governed. The government’s promise of unity, happiness, and bright future cannot be achieved without data. On December 17-27, 2022 Turkmenistan conducted a national...
The national strategy of Turkmenistan on climate change is data-scarce with no targets and measurable commitments. Country’s nationally determined contributions (NDCs) are not publicly available. The government has not...
