2020 Top Think Tanks in Central Asia

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7 November 2021
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The Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania conducts research on the role policy institutes play in governments and civil societies around the world. TTCSP produces the annual Global Go To Think Tank Index that ranks the world’s leading think tanks in a number of categories. This list contains leading institutions in Central Asia and the Caucasus region (Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan).


CRRC-Georgia is a non-governmental, non-profit research organization, which collects, analyzes and publishes policy relevant data on social, economic and political trends in Georgia. CRRC-Georgia, together with CRRC-Armenia and CRRC-Azerbaijan, constitutes …


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The Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan (KazISS) is a Kazakhstan state institution aimed at providing research and analytical support to the President of Kazakhstan and …


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AKF seeks to provide long-term solutions to problems of poverty, hunger, illiteracy and ill health in the poorest parts of South and Central Asia, Eastern and Western Africa, and the …


CER aims to provide policy advice to the government and conduct research for development institutions on key development issues. The mission of CER is to create an environment where new, …


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The Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU) is an independent research organization based in Kabul, Afghanistan. It aims to provide a firm basis for policy and practice in the country's …


Economic Research Institute is aimed at providing scientific support for the country's economic strategy implementation, analyzing of economy state and forecasting of its future development, promoting of sustainable economic growth, …



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The Armenian Center for National and International Studies (ACNIS) is an independent research center based in Yerevan. It is the institutional initiative of Raffi Hovannisian, Armenia’s former Minister of Foreign …


The Institute for Policy Studies is an independent not-for-profit research organisation launched in Tbilisi in the spring 2002, and has support from the Open Society Institute, Budapest and the Open …