Central Asia

Can micro-funding female entrepreneurs lift Tajikistan's economy?

Continued infrastructure investment from multilaterals, especially that linked to the training of women, is helping Tajikistan develop a future for tourism, but international investors remain wary to say the least.
February 26, 2020

At the very end of January, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) signed an 18-year sovereign-guaranteed $150 million loan to finance the construction of a 44-kilometre stretch of the M41 road, the main transport corridor in the country linking Tajikistan with the Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and China.

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