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In early May, Uzbekistan’s capital played host to the Tashkent International Investment Forum. Since ascending to the presidency in 2016, Mirziyoyev has promised to throw open the once-tightly locked doors of the Uzbek economy to international investors – part of a wider liberalization and reform agenda, widely dubbed by Uzbek authorities as “New Uzbekistan.” In 2020, the government promised to …
The economies of Russia and Ukraine will contract by 10 percent and 20 percent respectively this year as the war between the two countries causes “the greatest supply shock” for 50 years, the European development bank, EBRD, said on Thursday. “With so much uncertainty, the bank intends to produce a further forecast in the next couple of months, taking into …
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development says war has triggered ‘greatest supply shock’ in 50 years. In its first economic forecast since Russia’s invasion on February 24, the London-based lender warned on Thursday that the war had triggered “the greatest supply shock since at least the early 1970s” and would have a severe effect on economies far beyond the …
For years in the Kazakh village of Sarykamys, people would go to sleep in their beds and never wake up again. Our recent research into the 30 largest extractive companies in Armenia, Georgia and Kazakhstan found that at least 11 had received investment from Western European financial institutions, including the EBRD. KazMunayGas, Kazakhstan’s state-owned oil company, which also has projects …
