DUSHANBE (TCA) — A new report by the World Bank highlights Tajikistan’s need to prioritize job creation in order to achieve its development objectives and reduce poverty. The report, Tajikistan Jobs Diagnostic: Strategic Framework for Jobs, analyzes the main challenges the country faces in creating jobs and sets out policy recommendations to enable the creation of more and better jobs that are also more inclusive of women and youth, the World Bank said.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — During the past 25 years Switzerland has provided more than CHF 350 million of financial, technical and humanitarian support to Kyrgyzstan in the sectors of health, public institutions, private sector, urban water supply, irrigation, local self-governance and civil society engagement, the Embassy of Switzerland in the Kyrgyz Republic said as the two countries marked the 25th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations on February 14, 2017.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — The parliamentary faction of Respublika—Ata-Jurt party on February 14 nominated its leader Omurbek Babanov as its candidate in Kyrgyzstan’s presidential election scheduled for this fall.

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BISHKEK (TCA) — Remittances from Kyrgyz citizens working abroad to their home country grew 21 percent in 2016, Tolkunbek Abdygulov, the head of the National Bank of Kyrgyzstan, told a news conference on February 14.

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ASTANA (TCA) — Authorities in Kazakhstan should immediately release Zhanbolat Mamay, editor of the independent newspaper Sayasi kalam/Tribuna, the Committee to Protect Journalists said on February 13.

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TASHKENT (TCA) — In Uzbekistan, the estimated effect of import substitution reached $2.1 billion in 2016, the official Jahon information agency reported with reference to the country’s Economy Ministry.

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