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Tajikistan joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) on 2 March 2013, becoming the 159th country to join the organization. The Working Party on the accession of Tajikistan was established by the General Council on 18 July 2001. Tajikistan completed its membership negotiations on 26 October 2012, when the Working Party adopted the accession package.
A diagnostic center in Tajikistan. The Tajikistan health system is influenced by the former Soviet legacy. It is ranked as the poorest country within the WHO European region, including the lowest total health expenditure per capita. [1] Tajikistan is ranked 129th as Human Development Index of 188 countries, with an Index of 0.627 in 2016. [2]
An estimated 20% of irrigated lands in Tajikistan suffer from water shortages caused by poor regulation of river flows. In the area of the Istravshan (30,000 ha), only 55% of water demands are met. In Kyzyl-Su–Yah-Su basin in Kulob area (60,000 ha) receives only 65% of required water. The same situation prevails for 12,000 ha of land in Hisor ...
Environmental issues in Tajikistan include concentrations of agricultural chemicals and salts in the soil and groundwater, [1] poor management of water resources, [2] and soil erosion. [3] Additionally, because of inadequate sanitation facilities, untreated industrial waste (particularly from aluminum production ) and sewage combine with ...
Image credits: Sea_Pop_772 Only 12% of the 3,000 respondents said they consider themselves wealthy and only 4 in 10 people who are objectively wealthy, with assets of more than $2 million, said ...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, in 2022, Mississippi, West Virginia, Arkansas, Alabama, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Louisiana had the highest poverty rates in the U.S. at over 15% each. See ...
Landlocked and poor in natural resources, Tajikistan remains the poorest and least developed of the former Soviet republics, with half of the inhabitants living on less than US$2 a day. Many Tajiks have emigrated to Russia or Kazakhstan , and the large amounts of money they send back home make Tajikistan one of the more remittance -dependent ...
Definitions of the poverty line vary considerably among nations. For example, rich nations generally employ more generous standards of poverty than poor nations. Even among rich nations, the standards differ greatly. Thus, the numbers are not comparable among countries. Even when nations do use the same method, some issues may remain. [10]