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It explores ways to unlock sustainable and inclusive growth opportunities in CAREC countries by analyzing innovations in digital transformation, e-taxation, financial technology promotion, and debt sustainability, and the impact on small businesses and households. The book’s insights provide a springboard for crisis response efforts across CAREC countries aimed at accelerating economic recovery.

This research report provides a questionnaire-based primary data collected in six CAREC countries.

In this issue we inform about our UN observer status, and provide details of the CAREC Ministerial and the Governing Council meetings. The inaugural issue of the CAREC Quarterly Economic Monitor and MOU with the Institute of Standardization is also announced here.

在近期发布的首期《中亚学院季度经济监测报告》（以下简称：《报告》）中，中亚学院首席经济学家团队以新冠疫情对全球经济造成的严重影响为背景，收集并整理现有数据，着重分析了中亚区域经济合作地区2020年第二、三季度的经济发展状况。

В этом первом выпуске Ежеквартального экономического мониторинга Института ЦАРЭС наша команда экономистoв собрала доступные данные и проанализировала квартальные тенденции, чтобы получить первое представление о возникающих перспективах, в то время когда мир и регион ЦАРЭС учатся жить с пандемией и надежныe варианты вакцинации вселяют надежду и уверенность, несмотря на нависшие угрозы второй волны и новых штаммов вируса.

In an inaugural issue of the CAREC Institute Quarterly Economic Monitor (QEM), our Chief Economist team has compiled available data and worked out quarterly trends to gather a first glimpse of the emerging outlook as the world and the CAREC region learn to live with the pandemic while reliable vaccination options offer hope and confidence despite the overhang of the second wave and emergence of a more virulent new strain.

This policy brief is derived from the CAREC Institute’s research titled “Climate Insurance, Infrastructure and Governance in CAREC” and the namesake virtual workshop delivered in collaboration with the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) and the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography (XIEG) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences on 18-19 June 2020.

In this issue, we inform that the Institute has signed the host city agreement. There is information on workshops and conferences regarding the topics of trans-Caspian transport and trade; Aral Sea restoration; biodiversity conservation; and water cooperation in Central Asia. COVID-19 and WASH related analysis is also shared.

Our workshop report of November 2020 scientific-practical conference summarizes participation of the CAREC Institute in the session regarding the climate change impact on infrastructure and logistics In CAREC. The conference itself focused on regional collaboration, informed by science, that can help solve climate-related challenges in Central Asia.

This report covers summary of a symposium titled “Ecological Restoration and Management of the Aral Sea” held by the CAREC Institute and Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of Chinese Academy of Sciences (XIEG) in collaboration with the National University of Uzbekistan during 24-25 November 2020.

This workshop report summarizes presentations and discussions of a joint webinar by the CAREC Institute and the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI) titled “Trans-Caspian Transport Corridor: Infrastructure and Trade” held during 16-20 November 2020.

This economic brief focusses on some megatrends that are accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic. It discusses briefly what new technologies have emerged globally, how these change the organization of supply chains and globalization, and how COVID-19 impacts these developments.

A team of researchers from Quaid-i-Azam University of Pakistan and Baku Engineering University of Azerbaijan examined the impact of Pakistan-China free trade agreement (FTA) on exports creation.