BISHKEK (TCA) — The Times of Central Asia presents to its readers Stratfor’s Global Intelligence, a weekly review of the most important events that happened in the world — from Europe to Middle East to Russia to Central Asia to Afghanistan to China and the Americas.
BISHKEK (TCA) — Women entrepreneurs significantly contribute to the development of Kyrgyzstan. According to the National Statistical Committee, women make up 41% of the total employed population of the country and 31.3% of entrepreneurs engaged in small and medium-sized businesses.
LONDON (TCA) — When in late summer 2014 Kyrgyzstan’s then Interior Minister Abdulla Suranchiyev revealed names of local people’s representatives accusing them of “ties with organised crime,” a shockwave went through the country and beyond. Crime in Central Asia is a long ignored fact that is a deadly danger for the society. Of course, everyone knew about the organized crime groups and their ringleaders dubbed “avtoritety,” an equivalent for the western “godfathers,” but hardly anyone so far had realised that their power over the economy and indeed society itself had become so dangerously strong, exceeding that of the much-feared terrorism made in Afghanistan and the Near East.
BISHKEK (TCA) — The fourth meeting of the Russian-Kyrgyz Development Fund (RKDF) Council held in Moscow last month decided to soften the Fund’s lending terms. The decision is extremely important for further development of Kyrgyzstan’s economy during the next decade, RKDF Board Chairperson Nursulu Akhmetova said this week in Bishkek.
ASHGABAT (TCA) — During February 29 – March 4, the World Bank held a practical training course on Financial Programming and Policies in Ashgabat. The workshop was attended by officials from the Turkmen Government agencies, including representatives of the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Economy and Development, the Central Bank of Turkmenistan, the Main State Tax Inspectorate, and the State Committee on Statistics, the World Bank’s press office said.
TASHKENT (TCA) — Uzbekistan’s Navoi Free Industrial and Economic Zone (FIEZ) has attracted more than $40 million of foreign direct investments from China, Singapore, South Korea, India, Italy, the UAE, and Great Britain, Novosti Uzbekistana news portal reported.
