| Table of Contents: | | | | GEOGRAPHIC REGIONS : RUCIS, Tajikistan, Central Asia, IMF-World Bank, Russia, United Kingdom | | | | TOPICS : industry, politics, agriculture, corporate, corruption, finance, fiscal, government, metals, public sector, civil war, foreign investment, judicial, privatisation | | | | SIGNIFICANCE : In the past two years, press reports, litigation in the United Kingdom and an Ernst & Young audit have revealed a number of embarrassing cases of state financial misreporting. These cases have shed light on how the authorities exercise control over key industrial assets -- a process that has paralleled the political consolidation of President Imomali Rahmon's regime. The centralisation of political and commercial authority is likely to have a lasting impact on the investment climate and pace of economic refor |
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