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Uzbekistan Towards 2030: A New Social Protection Model for a Changing Economy and Society
Uzbekistan Towards 2030:
A New Social Protection Model
for a Changing
Economy and Society
The study is financed by the
Poverty Thematic Trust Fund
(PTTF) in cooperation with the
UN Bureau for Development
Policy (New York, USA) within
the «Transformative Social
Protection in a Transforming
Society and Economy» Project.
Summary:
This research utilizes an innovative approach to social protection,
considering it in a broader sense, including not just benefits and pen-
sions, but a range of policies for the labor market, education system,
healthcare, and social programs for providing housing and other as-
sets. This approach is in line with that of the United Nations’ Social
Protection Floor Initiative, which sets out the obligations of govern-
ments to guarantee citizens’ rights to minimum incomes and to basic
public services; and to expand these minima in line with the country’s
development. It provides an opportunity to look at social protection in
the context of structural transformation of the economy, anticipated
changes in demographic patterns, social structure and changes in the
lifestyles and values of people over the medium and long term. As the
country enters a new stage of development, it is time to review the
positive roles which social protection can play in stimulating transfor-
mative processes in the economy, society and institutions.
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