BISHKEK (TCA) — As internal migration from the villages to cities remains a social and economic problem in Central Asian countries, we are

ASTANA (TCA) — Urbanization will increase Kazakhstan’s competitiveness in the global arena, Zhaksybek Kulekeyev, an advisor to the director

KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan’s Ministry of Rural Rehabilitation and Development last week said that Germany was set to inject nearly 20 million

TASHKENT (TCA) — On April 11, the World Bank and the Government of Uzbekistan signed a US$50 million Credit Agreement for the Modernizing Higher

KABUL (TCA) — Poverty and unemployment in Afghanistan rose in the three years following the start of international troops withdrawing in 2011 due

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Digital Tajikistan can be an important source of innovation, growth, and employment – provided that the country invests more in

ASTANA (TCA) — The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on June 22 said it is deepening its efforts to promote economic

TASHKENT (TCA) — A series of OSCE-supported professional managerial training courses for women organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in

TASHKENT (TCA) — The EU Delegation in Uzbekistan is developing a new program focusing on skills development to provide support for new employment

LONDON (TCA) — In Central Asia job supplies do not match job demand since governments and their investment policy do not offer the required

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan has become the latest EBRD country of operations to join the Women in Business programme, which promotes women’s

BISHKEK (TCA) — The World Bank has been working in Central Asia for more than 20 years to support the region’s countries in their efforts to end

BISHKEK (TCA) — The problem of divorce and the birth of children out of wedlock is becoming more acute among Kyrgyzstan’s labor migrants living

BISHKEK (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) Board of Directors has approved a total of $30 million in grants to assist Kyrgyzstan’s

ASHGABAT (TCA) — As Turkmenistan’s economy is experiencing a downturn due to decreased revenues from natural-gas exports, the country’s public

BISHKEK (TCA) — It is impossible to expand access to education for children and education specialists without access to the Internet, Prime

ASTANA (TCA) — The Government of Kazakhstan on January 16 approved the draft of the National Action Plan for implementation of the Address of the

KABUL (TCA) — Afghanistan can boost its growth and create more jobs by establishing better migration policies to help its migrant workers seek

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan will need to create enough jobs to maximize productivity of the country's increasing working-age population and spur

KABUL (TCA) — Seventeen years after the Bonn Agreement under which a new interim administration was established, Afghanistan still faces