Women entrepreneurs in Tajikistan confront disproportionate challenges in their businesses compared to their male counterparts, with cross-border traders being no exception. The World Bank initiated the Fourth Phase of the Central Asia Regional Links Program in 2020, aiming to boost Tajikistan's...

Production and export diversification expose firms to domestic and international competition, which enhances productivity and ultimately drives a country's structural transformation from agriculture to industry to services. This structural transformation is accompanied by a spatial...

Tajikistan is a small mountainous land-locked Central Asian country with an economy that heavily depends, as a legacy of the soviet economy, on exports of cotton, aluminum and hydroelectricity that are three rather environmentally sensitive sectors, as well as on remittances from migrants living...

The Programmatic Public Expenditure Review (PPER) has been designed to cover five themes which represent the key challenges for fiscal policy and Public Financial Management System (PFM) reforms in Tajikistan. The themes are as follows: Theme 1: Public Expenditure, Fiscal Space and Growth; Theme...

This assessment is based on work undertaken between October 2006 and May 2007. The summary assessment covers the following three areas: an integrated assessment of PFM performance based on the 28+3 PEFA indicators, an assessment of the impact of PFM weaknesses, and the prospects for reform...

The primary purpose of this paper is to update the Poverty Assessment from June, 2000, and to give an assessment of the poverty situation in Tajikistan in 2003 and changes since 1999. The paper is part of an on-going program of work conducted in close cooperation with the Government, based on...

his Public Expenditure and Institutional Review is part of a package of analytical and advisory service products aimed at assisting the government and Tajikistan's other development partners to develop a medium- to long-term strategy for public sector reform to support the government's poverty...

Tajikistan still faces enormous challenges in reversing years of economic decline and political turmoil in addressing the health needs of the population. This report provides a synthesis of the recent trends on the health status of the population and the underlying determinants of health, and...

This study examines how improvements in the internal and external trade regimes, and the transport and trade facilitation systems can contribute to sustain rapid growth and attract foreign investment to win the race against the capital stock decline. Key recommendations are presented in a simple...

A social assessment was done during the preparation of Tajikistan's Pilot Poverty Alleviation Project to answer several key questions: What are the poor people's priority needs and wants? Why are they poor? What are their own strategies for improving their lives? And how can they be helped to...