Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Finance has published details of the government’s “Program for the Socio-Economic Development of Turkmenistan and the Investment Program in 2026”, which President Serdar Berdimuhamedov approved at a Cabinet of Ministers meeting, setting the macroeconomic, sectoral and regional development parameters to be delivered during 2026. Prepared on the basis of the President’s 2022–2028 socio-economic development program, the national program to transform living and social conditions up to 2028, and the current year’s State Budget, the 2026 program envisages maintaining stable macroeconomic indicators and GDP growth while diversifying the economy, strengthening industrial and innovative development, and increasing utilisation of industrial capacity. Priority directions include expanding export-oriented and import-substituting production, increasing foreign trade turnover, supporting food security and environmentally clean agricultural output, advancing environmental protection measures, and accelerating the introduction of digital technologies and the “green” economy, alongside improvements in transport, utilities and social services. The program also emphasises a favourable business environment, faster development of small and medium entrepreneurship, enhancements to the legislative basis for public-private partnerships, and continued investment in production and social facilities, new production launches, job creation, social protection and rising incomes. The Deputy Chairperson of the Cabinet of Ministers presenting the draft program was instructed to carry out the necessary implementation work.

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