NUR-SULTAN (TCA) — The Kazakh government meeting on December 3, chaired by Prime Minister Askar Mamin, considered the draft State Program for the Development of Kazakhstan’s Regions until 2025. Implementation of the program will make it possible to achieve the country’s urbanization level of at least 62% by 2025, increase the competitiveness of regions, improve the transport, engineering and social infrastructure and, in general, the quality of life of the population, the prime minister’s press service reported.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Kyrgyzstan’s medium-term economic growth is forecast at around 3.4% a year, according to a macroeconomic review for the Kyrgyz Republic published by the Directorate for Research at the Eurasian Development Bank (EDB).

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TASHKENT (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved $200 million in loans that will help the Government of Uzbekistan reform its housing finance programs and provide families with more affordable mortgage products, ADB’s Country Office in Uzbekistan said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — On December 3, the U.S. Embassy in the Kyrgyz Republic, together with the Republican Youth and Children’s Library named after Bayalinov, will formally launch a new Center for Inclusive Education in Bishkek. The Center is named Kamkor (“caring” in Kyrgyz language) to reflect the desire to include people of various ages, backgrounds and physical abilities in U.S. supported programs, the embassy said.

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ASHGABAT (TCA) — Turkmenistan’s flag carrier resumes regular passenger flights to Europe. Flights to Birmingham (UK) and Frankfurt (Germany) have been included in the timetable of Turkmenistan Air Company. Regular flights (once a week) are starting this week, state-run Newspaper Golden Age reported.

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DUSHANBE (TCA) — Strong GDP growth continued in Tajikistan in 2019, remaining robust at 7.2 percent year-on-year in the first three quarters of 2019, according to the fall 2019 edition of the World Bank’s biannual Tajikistan Economic Update, which outlines the economic situation in the country, as well as the medium-term development prospects.

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