Tajikistan, World Bank sign project to strengthen public finance management

DUSHANBE (TCA) — Tajikistan’s Finance Minister Abdusalom Qurboniyon and the World Bank Country Manager for Tajikistan, Patricia Veevers-Carter, on February 17 signed an agreement to finance the Public Finance Management Modernization Project II (PFM-II). The project is financed from the International Development Association in the amount of US$10 million and from the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID) in the amount of US $9.8 million, the World Bank said.

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Development Bank of Kazakhstan to fund alloy plant construction with China

ASTANA (TCA) — The Development Bank of Kazakhstan will take part in the construction of a complex alloy producing plant in Kazakhstan. The project will be implemented as part of the program of production capacity transfer from China to Kazakhstan, the Bank’s Chairman of the Board Bolat Zhamishev said on February 17 at a briefing in Astana, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported.   

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Digital transformation in Central and South Asia

ALMATY (TCA) — The World Bank’s new ‘World Development Report 2016: Digital Dividends’ was launched on February 17 at the Kazakh-Britain Technical University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Discussion of the report helps catalyze a shared vision for digital transformation among Central and South Asia government leaders, experts, and practitioners, the World Bank said.

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