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Uzbekistan Towards 2030: A New Social Protection Model for a Changing Economy and Society
Figure 6. Demotivating effect of allowances: the recipients and non-recipients of allowances who believe that:
Source: Results of the Sociological survey, CER 2013
ing” recipients to enable them to contribute to the country’s further economic
growth through participation in productive employment.
The existing social protection system will need to be adjusted to perform
in a completely different context, with a completely different fiscal base and
completely different roles to play. With the transition to a more targeted sys-
tem of social protection , the focus in the transition years was on providing a
social assistance benefit (as well as providing land plots for the population,
privatization of housing etc), providing short-term support to families with
children (support for the longer term is provided upon further request), and
maintaining universal access to social insurance schemes (primarily pension
schemes). As the country enters a new stage of development, social protec-
tion policies need to be more closely inter-related with the employment poli-
cies. These policies need to be designed to complement each other as much
as possible.
The new social protection
model should not only
protect, but also create
opportunities to involve
people in economic and
social activities, thus
transforming their values
and stereotypes
Sociological survey “Transformative social
protection in a transforming economy and society”,
CER, 2013
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At present: 1) Labor market policies are currently geared towards the objec-
tives of the transition period, and chiefly promote generation of employment in
technologically simple industries. Employment policy as well as other related
policy measures will need to focus more on creating more productive employ-
ment in manufacturing industries and services with higher value added.
2) The educational system is also aligned with the existing economic struc-
ture and promotes the continuation of the existing employment structure. In
fact, the experience of foreign economies shows that in order to ensure the
required growth of the manufacturing industries, it is essential to have more
than 1500-2000 engineers and natural scientists per 1mln of the population.
At the moment Uzbekistan has about 540 engineers and natural scientists per
1 mln of the population. Future change in the economic structure will trigger
growing demand for employees qualified to work in more sophisticated manu-
facturing industries (electrical engineers, chemists, etc.).
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