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On March 7, CAREC Secretariat held an online workshop for CAREC University Startup Generator 2023 participants focusing on Disruptive Innovation and Investor Expectations. Disruptive innovation transforms expensive or highly sophisticated products or services—previously accessible to a high-end or more-skilled segment of consumers—to those that are more affordable and accessible to a broader population by displacing […]

On 16–17 February 2023, more than 50 representatives from the governments of Kazakhstan and the Kyrgyz Republic met in Bishkek. CWRD DG Eugenue Zhukov joined the meeting that was co-chaired by Deputy Minister of Economy and Commerce of the Kyrgyz Republic Kanatbek Abdrakhmanov and Vice-Minister of National Economy of Kazakhstan Abzal Abdikarimov. The meeting proposed […]

CAREC high-level policy dialogue discusses domestic revenue mobilization for development and decarbonization

The 3rd Meeting of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC)  Regional Working Group on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures (SPS RWG) (i) discussed the implementation progress of the CAREC Common Agenda for Modernization of SPS Measures for Trade (CAST), specifically the activities implemented under the CAREC SPS TA: Modernizing Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures to Facilitate […]

Ministers from ten member countries of the Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) Program met virtually for the 21st Ministerial Conference on 24 November. The Ministers endorsed three strategic documents: (1) Post-Pandemic Framework for a Green, Sustainable, Inclusive Recovery; (2) Cooperation Framework for Agricultural Development and Food Security in the CAREC Region; and (3) CAREC […]

The Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation (CAREC) National Focal Points (NFPs) met virtually on 20 October to review the deliverables and arrangements for the CAREC Ministerial Conference planned to be held on 24 November 2022. The deliverables are the (1) Post-Pandemic Framework for a Green, Sustainable, and Inclusive Recovery; (2) Cooperation Framework for Agricultural Development and Food Security in the CAREC Region; (3) CAREC Green Energy Alliance; and (4) Supporting Regional Actions to Address Climate Change as a Crosscutting Theme Under CAREC 2030. The People’s Republic of China’s CAREC National Focal Point and Deputy Director-General of the Department of International Economic and Financial Cooperation of the Ministry of Finance Jin Lu, delivered opening remarks, while CWRD DG Eugenue Zhukov and EARD DG Theresa Kho, moderated the sessions.