Turkmenistan
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OUTLOOK 2020 Turkmenistan
Official data unreliable but growth is falling. Budgetary crisis grinding down quality of life. Vital gas export volumes, however, show signs of recovery. Fictional country “Turgistan” in new Netflix action thriller seems to have hit a nerve.
CONFERENCE CALL: President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov hits the road to woo investors
The President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov was in Italy this week for an Italian – Turkmenistan business forum took in Milan on October 7, to woo investors and diversify the economy
EBRD: Pace of emerging Europe economic growth slows as global outlook weakens
The pace of growth in the EBRD’s emerging economies is slowing on the back of a weaker global economic outlook, and pressure from slower growth in the Eurozone and China, US/Chinese trade tensions and a contraction in world automobile production, acc
Central Asia’s electricity network – underpowered and fragmented
Power planners were left with major headaches when the demise of the Soviet Union caused all Central Asian Power System (CAPS) member states to scramble to remake their grids along national lines. However, pan-region ideas are now back in fashion.
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Turkmenistan: Echo chambers
For a leader so uninterested in representative government, Berdimuhamedov has done a lot of fiddling with the legislative branch.