The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released its 2024 Special 301 Report outlining protection and enforcement of intellectual property (IP) rights among the U.S. trading partners. Turkmenistan...
March 2024: Rice prices continue to decline. Palaw costs decline by 17%. March 2024 witnessed a substantial decline in the cost of preparing palaw in Ashgabat, with the average expense dropping to 65.3 Turkmen manat...
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...
The Turkmenistan Family Code and the Civil Procedure Code have undergone revisions, published on March 30, 2024, notably removing the sections regarding divorce due to a spouse’s absence, thus disallowing divorces...
A study by Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) has investigated the effects of dust from the Aralkum Desert across Central Asia. The results have shown that the region became 7% dustier in the last 30...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) analyzes global privatization trends over the last four decades in a policy brief titled “Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises: A Summary of Experience”. Global Privatization Trends...
A new ecological study in the journal of Neurology has estimated the global burden of stroke attributable to non-optimal temperatures across 204 countries. Globally the burden has decreased in almost all regions, except...
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...
The Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) published its 2024 country report for Turkmenistan. It assesses the country’s transition toward democracy and a market economy and covers the period from February 1...
UNAIDS launched a campaign “Decriminalize” aimed at raising awareness on issues surrounding HIV/AIDs on institutionalized levels across the world. UNAIDS is the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. It aims at...
