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Source: ADB, Asian Development Outlook
The ADB has also noted low inflation in Kyrgyzstan, saying: “With decelerating price increases in most product categories, the average inflation rate for the first 9 months of 2024 remained 4.8% in the Kyrgyz Republic.”
Kyrgyzstan can expect inflation of 6.2% in 2025, the ADB forecast.
In finance, Kyrgyzstan is weighing a first-ever dollar-bond sale, which could take place this year.
2.0 Tajikistan
2.1 Politics, major themes – Tajikistan
Will 2025 be the year in which the ruler of more than three decades, Emomali Rahmon, hands the presidency to his son, Mayor of Dushanbe Rustam Emomali?
It appears that an alleged coup plot, which has resulted in a purge of prominent politicians and public figures, who have been put on trial, could be part of preparations aimed at ensuring an unopposed transition.
As Galiya Ibragimova, an analyst at the Berlin-based Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center, has observed in a commentary: “The criminal case itself is classified, so the available details are scarce. Indeed, there are many indications that this ‘uprising’ is nothing more than a figment of the
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