Regional Cooperation Reduces Poverty and Builds Resilience in Central Asia

Kazakhstan – East West Roads Project.

Challenge: Regional Co-ordination is a Development Opportunity

Despite recent moves toward building greater interconnectedness, the countries of Central Asia (CA) – Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan – remain some of the least connected economies in the world, with the region’s connectivity indicator averaging below a 60 percent ratio of access to global GDP. CA countries also rank among the most climate change-vulnerable in the Europe and Central Asia…