Central Asia economies

Although forecasts have improved slightly, the World Bank warns of considerable uncertainty when it comes to post-COVID recovery in the Europe and Central Asia region.

The January 2021 World Bank Global Economic Prospects report is out, heralding a “subdued” recovery for the world. How fares Central Asia?

25 years after independence, which Central Asian and South Caucasian countries are the best (and worst) places to invest?

The IMF forecasts the slowest economic recovery in almost two decades.

The causes are familiar: Russian recession and low oil prices.

Ashgabat has reportedly halted the sale of foreign currencies amid worries of a devaluation.

Central Asia’s bad year; anti-terror coalitions and backyards; recommended reads.

The causes of weakness and instability in the global economy are structural, a new World Bank report says.

Nazarbayev promised there would be “no upheavals” but the global economy had other plans.

The tiger of Ashgabat, if it ever was, is no more.

With Japanese and Turkish investment, Ashgabat hopes to make natural gas into something else.