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Tajikistan
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STATS
Source: World Bank
Currency: Tajikistani somoniGDP: 7.523 billion USD (2018)
GDP per capita: 826.62 USD (2018)
GDP growth rate: 7.3% annual change (2018)
GDP growth rate: 7.3% annual change (2018)
GNI per capita: 4,050 PPP dollars (2018)
Gross national income: 36.87 billion PPP dollars (2018)
Internet users: 20.47% of the population (2016)
Uzbekistan joins Central Asian hydropower race
After years of raising objections to similar projects in neighbouring Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, Uzbekistan earlier this…
Italy’s Salini Impregilo wins $5bn 13kWH Rogun HPP and dam contract
Italy’s Salini Impregilo has won the contract to design and build the Rogun Dam hydro power plant in Tajikistan, it…
Auchan opens first Tajik hypermarket in ‘revolution’ for food security
France’s international retail group Auchan yesterday opened the very first Tajik hypermarket – and the company’s first…
Tajikistan looks to EBD to fund Nurek Hydro Power plant
Tajikistan is negotiating with Eurasian Development Bank (EDB) and several other financial institutions to raise the…
ADB urges reform acceleration as Tajik economy slows down to 3.8% growth
Tajik economy: Tajikistan needs to speed up its attempts to increase the competitiveness of its industries…
Angren-Pap rail line gives Tashkent ammunition in Tajik ‘water wars’
Construction of the new $1.9bn Angren-Pap electrified railway line connecting Uzkbekistan’s territories in the Fergana Valley with the…
Tajikistan becomes latest customer for Iranian gas oil
Iranian gas oil: Iran has begun exporting gas oil export to Tajikistan for the first time, making the…
BRICS losing their shine with emergence of tech-heavy TICKs
Emerging market fund managers have come across a new acronym to excite them now that the deepening recessions…
ADB moves to support Tajik investment climate as remittances dwindle
Tajik investment: The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has allocated $69m to Tajikistan to support the investment…
Cotton, electricity and the Aral Sea: The troubled waters of Central Asia
Fed by the melting glaciers of the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountain ranges on Kyrgyzstan’s and…
EBRD pledges $200m to address Tajik energy crisis
Tajik energy crisis: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is to invest $200m in Tajikistan…
Central Asian economies slowing down, IMF predicts
Central Asian economies: The IMF today corroborated concerns voiced by the EBRD earlier this week that…
Drop in remittances hurting Central Asian economies, warns EBRD
Remittances to Central Asia, Eastern Europe and the Caucasus have fallen to 2009 levels, and are…
Drop in migrant workers’ remittances hits Central Asian economies
Migrant workers: The woes of the Russian economy have begun trickling down to those of its Central Asian…
Tajikistan builds new town in the desert in northern Sughd province
Tajikistan builds new town in the desert: Tajik President Emomali Rakhmon yesterday attended a ceremony to…
Schiever to open Auchan hypermarket in Tajikistan
Schiever, the French hypermarket and franchise specialists, has announced that it is to open an Auchan-franchised…
Tajik hydroelectricity to energy independence – Rahmon
Tajik hydroelectricity: Tajikistan’s President Emomali Rahmon used his annual address to parliament last week to reaffirm…
Tajikistan GDP growth to slow to 4.4% in 2015, predicts EBRD
TajikistanGDP growth: The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development is predicting that growth in Tajikistan’s growth…
Tajik farmlands rented to Chinese cotton and cereal company
Tajik farmlands: China’s Xinyang Inhai company has rented 6,300 hectares of farmland in the Dangara and…
Asian Development Bank increases Tajik aid to $79m
Asian Development Bank increases Tajik aid: The ADB has agreed to increase the level of its Tajik assistance programme…
Coca-Cola Içecek to build bottling plant in Tajikistan
Coca-Cola Içecek: Tajikistan’s State Committee of Investment and State Property Management GosKomInvest and Turkey’s Coca-Cola Içecek A.S.…