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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. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — In 2016, authorities in Kazakhstan issued 36,792 permits to employers for attracting foreign labor force (FLF) to work in the country, with a third of all foreign workers coming from China, the official website of the Prime Minister of Kazakhstan reported. Continue reading
BISHKEK (TCA) — A Government performance can be assessed by how it takes care of the elderly. Continue reading
TASHKENT (TCA) — The International Labor Organization (ILO) says the Government of Uzbekistan is making progress in reforms to address risks of forced labor in its cotton industry. In a report released on February 1, following its independent monitoring of the 2016 cotton harvest season, the ILO concludes organized child labor is now socially unacceptable in Uzbekistan and the practice has been phased out, the World Bank said in a press release. Continue reading
ASTANA (TCA) — Dozens of oil workers are facing court hearings in Kazakhstan's western region of Manghystau after a local court found their hunger strike illegal, RFE/RL's Kazakh Service reports. Continue reading
DUSHANBE (TCA) — The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) updated 2017 to 2019 country program for Tajikistan focuses on supporting energy and road development, improving food security, strengthening investment climate, inclusive health, and sustainable urban infrastructure, ADB’s country office in Tajikistan said on January 18. Continue reading
