Welcome to Bourse & Bazaar Foundation
Welcome to the Substack page of the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation. After publishing articles on our main website for nearly 10 years, we made the decision in March 2026 to share our public-facing research via Substack. Making this move will allow us to streamline how we publish and distribute our research, including through a dedicated database with over 3,000 subscribers. Using this platform will also make it easier for our readers to engage with and share our content in their networks.
About the Foundation
The Bourse & Bazaar Foundation is a research foundation committed to economic development, economic diplomacy, and economic justice in West and Central Asia.
Established in October 2020 as a non-profit entity in the United Kingdom, the Foundation began as a digital publisher of the same name in 2015. Our work imagines security, prosperity, sustainability, and cultural flourishing in the region spanning from Turkey to Afghanistan and from Yemen to Kazakhstan. The countries West and Central Asia are home to around 600 million people. These countries are charting a new course as part of a politically ambitious, economically integrated, and socially dynamic macroregion. Against this backdrop, our research and convenings help policymakers, business leaders, and civil society stakeholders to understand critical events and trends and to identify further pathways for inclusive and sustainable development.
Our work is distinguished by the following principles:
We focus on economic issues, ranging from national development models to the daily challenges of ordinary people. We believe that a disproportionate focus on security and political challenges in policy circles has prevented more holistic visions for West and Central Asian advancement.
We are innovative, producing research and analysis that offers new and incisive perspectives on the economic, political, and social remaking of West and Central Asia.
We are intensely collaborative, working in partnership with leading institutions in West and Central Asia and across the world to produce new research and to build networks of likeminded people.
We actively create opportunities for the next generation of researchers and scholars to contribute to policy formation in West and Central Asia at the highest levels.
You can learn more about the Bourse & Bazaar Foundation by visiting our main website.
Who is our analysis for?
We publish analysis with a wide audience in mind. Our research is used by policymakers, executives, analysts, and journalists who are seeking actionable insights or quality assessments about political, economic, and social dynamics in West and Central Asia.
But we also aim to produce research and analysis that is broadly accessible, helping general readers interested in world events to gain a deeper understanding about the connections between
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