regions of Tajikistan. Primary care facilities were given financial incentives conditional on general quality and the quantity …

payments, and bribe payments using experimental variation and data from Tajikistan firms. Firms that e-file have lower …

This edition of the Tajikistan Country Economic Update (CEU) is part of a semi-annual series designed to monitor socio …-economic developments in Tajikistan. In the first half of 2017, total investment was down by over seventeen percent year on year. However … highlighting the key fiscal management challenges in Tajikistan …

The principal outcome of the tax reform implemented in recent years in the Republic of Tajikistan is the reduction of … projects, has conducted a series of studies, which allow to monitor the tax system reforming processes in Tajikistan. The main … goal of the studies was a periodic assessment of time and costs of taxpayers in Tajikistan to comply with the mandatory …

More than 20 percent of children under the age of 5 in Tajikistan are stunted. A large literature finds that stunting … representative surveys conducted simultaneously in Tajikistan in late 2016. This design allows analysis of the determinants of …

This edition of the Tajikistan Country Economic Update (CEU) is part of a semiannual series designed to monitor … socioeconomic developments in Tajikistan. It presents an analysis of political, economic, and social developments, as well as the … highlighting human capital development in Tajikistan …

Smoking prevalence Tajikistan remains rather moderate. According to the Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) conducted in … 2016, smokers constitute 6.3 percent of the adult population of Tajikistan. However, 12.5 percent of study participants … reported consuming smokeless tobacco (nasway). Tajikistan joined the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO FCTC) in 2013 …

Tajikistan's human capital, eroded by the country's civil war (1992-97), remains low today. According to analyses by … the World Bank's Human Capital Project, a child born in Tajikistan today is expected to be 53 percent as productive as he … learning outcomes are the major reasons for underperformance. Accordingly, Tajikistan has made it a development priority to …

Tajikistan was ill-equipped for independence in 1991, and slipped almost immediately into violence. The civil war ended … peaceful political competition. In recent years, political instability and the potential for violence in Tajikistan has grown …-border risks. Indeed, most global indices that examine fragility and conflict place Tajikistan in a category of elevated risk. This …