A study by Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) has investigated the effects of dust from the Aralkum Desert across Central Asia. The results have shown that the region became 7% dustier in the last 30...
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) analyzes global privatization trends over the last four decades in a policy brief titled “Privatization of State-Owned Enterprises: A Summary of Experience”. Global Privatization Trends...
A new ecological study in the journal of Neurology has estimated the global burden of stroke attributable to non-optimal temperatures across 204 countries. Globally the burden has decreased in almost all regions, except...
Potentially 8% of Turkmenistan’s annual GDP. The government of Turkmenistan aggressively restricts access to the Internet, prompting an urgent need to evaluate the economic ramifications of such restrictions. The...
The Bertelsmann Stiftung’s Transformation Index (BTI) published its 2024 country report for Turkmenistan. It assesses the country’s transition toward democracy and a market economy and covers the period from February 1...
UNAIDS launched a campaign “Decriminalize” aimed at raising awareness on issues surrounding HIV/AIDs on institutionalized levels across the world. UNAIDS is the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS. It aims at...
Dominated by government-supported NGOs (GONGOs), Turkmenistan’s legal and political environment is antagonistic to the independent civic actors, who experience constant state-directed harassment, intimidation, and even...
Serdar Berdimuhamedov assumed the presidency of Turkmenistan on March 19, 2022. As of March 2024, he commemorated the two-year anniversary of his presidency. The Progres.online team examines the fluctuations in the...
On November 23, 2023, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) published a brief on civil society in Turkmenistan, titled “Civil Society Brief: Turkmenistan”, covering its development since independence and focusing on key...
The latest Transition Report (2023-24) from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) on Turkmenistan, released in November 2023, reveals notable changes compared to the previous year’s report...
