Over the six months of this year, Uzbekistan’s GDP grew by 6.4%. Budget revenues reached 113 trillion soums, an increase of 14%, reports Ritmeurasia.ru.
In general, since the beginning of the year, the added value created in the country reached 567.4 trillion soums, that is, $45.1 billion. This figure was recorded for the first time.
These figures were announced by President Shavkat Mirziyoyev at a video conference meeting dedicated to the analysis of ensuring economic growth rates in regions and industries in the first half of the year. Mirziyoyev noted the significance of the results achieved on the path of sustainable economic growth. “But today it will be useful to point out the shortcomings and identify specific tasks for using reserves,” he further said.
First of all, the President of Uzbekistan drew attention to measures to support entrepreneurship and poverty reduction. As a result of experiments in such regions of the country as Uychi, Zarbdor and Gijduvan, he noted, in six months more than 4 thousand mahallas (places of compact residence of the population in cities) were specialized in industry and agriculture, 1.6 million people became officially employed, 712 thousand new income tax payers appeared.
The meeting identified measures to give these processes a new impetus. In particular, now district khokims, bank heads and mahalla chairmen will enter into a tripartite agreement on joint work. Until December 1 of this year, households will be offered a financial package. This will provide employment to 495 thousand people. In the second half of the year, the coverage of the Family Entrepreneurship program will be increased by 1.5 times, and 4 trillion soums will be allocated within its framework.
CentralasianLIGHT.org
July 22, 2024