The infrastructure boom raises risks of smuggling, trafficking, and transnational crime across increasingly open borders.

By Eurasianet Central Asia is developing into a key trade hub despite the region’s lack of access to a seaport, according to a recently released study by the Kazakhstan-based Eurasian Development Bank ...

Central Asia is emerging as one of the most attractive destinations for financial flows from the Middle East. According to ...

The Great Game is playing out once again in Central Asia, but it is getting a new name and adopting a different set of rules. Economics, not politics, is defining the terms of the current superpower ...

ASTANA, November 27, 2023 — With the right policies, the Middle Corridor linking Chinese and European markets via Central Asia and the Caucasus can invigorate regional trade and boost connectivity for ...

Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have taken a significant step to line up financing for an ambitious plan to export renewable-energy-produced electricity to Europe, signing a memorandum of ...

Once again, all five Central Asian presidents attended the U.N. General Assembly to lay out their perspectives on an increasingly conflicted world. Annalena Baerbock, president of the 80th session of ...

When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, some speculated that the countries of the Caucasus and Central Asia (CCA) would turn away from their old imperial overlord. After all, Vladimir Putin’s revanchist ...

Download PDF More Formats on IMF eLibrary Order a Print Copy Create Citation Amidst a global backdrop of persistent post-COVID inflation and spillovers from Russia’s war in Ukraine, the countries of ...

The discovery suggests that trade routes along the Silk Road were far more complex than previously understood. By Alexander Nazaryan Michael Frachetti was on an archaeological dig high in the ...