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...
As Central Asia is facing droughts, water scarcity, and aims to implement water-saving measures, Prof. Olli Varis from Aalto University, Finland has called for action in an article entitled “Resources: Curb vast water...
The Regional Approaches for Combating Sand and Dust Storms and Droughts project by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) presents recommendations to reduce the region’s vulnerability to the...
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...
A study by Professor Aliya Isiksal from World Peace University in Northern Cyprus looked into the impact of natural resource (NR) wealth on the financial expansion of resource-rich Central Asia. This article summarizes...
February 2024: Palaw costs decline by 19%. Prices of wheat flour continue to decline. February 2024 witnessed a substantial decline in the cost of preparing palaw in Ashgabat, with the average expense dropping to 63.0...
As part of the Regional Approaches for Combating Sand and Dust Storms and Droughts project by the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), that took place between January 2020 and March 2023, a...
According to UNICEF’s report published in 2023 on the Levels and Trends in Child Mortality in the world, the under-five mortality rate in Turkmenistan has declined from 79 deaths in 1990 to 40 deaths in 2022. Mortality...
The UNDP published its annual Human Development Report (HDR) for 2023-2024 titled: “Breaking the Gridlock: Reimagining cooperation in a polarized world”. It highlights the widening human development gap between rich and...
