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Two forums, one pitch: the region sells resilience as the war premium fades
EconomyBrief16 Jun

Two forums, one pitch: the region sells resilience as the war premium fades

In the same week, Tashkent and Baku are both courting global capital on a promise of stability and integration. The timing is telling: with the Iran war ending, the region has to win capital on fundamentals again, after a season when someone else’s crisis did the selling.

Tashkent opens its biggest investment forum yet, with a new financial center as the prize
EconomyBrief16 Jun

Tashkent opens its biggest investment forum yet, with a new financial center as the prize

Uzbekistan opened the fifth Tashkent International Investment Forum on 16 June, with 3,423 delegates from 100 countries and a new common-law financial center at its core. The pitch is stability and reform, sold to capital that has grown choosier about where it goes.