Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has told officials that reports claiming 'no poor families are left' will no longer pass, according to Daryo's...
Uzbekistan's President Shavkat Mirziyoyev has told officials that reports claiming 'no poor families are left' will no longer pass, according to Daryo's report from his Bukhara visit.
He ordered district-level plans to train citizens now working abroad in low-paid jobs and place them in higher-paying work, and to lift 270,000 people to middle incomes or above.
Why it matters: a president publicly rejecting rosy poverty reporting is a warning to his own bureaucracy that the numbers must match reality. For Uzbekistan, where labour migration supports millions of households, turning low-paid migrants into skilled workers is the difference between remittance dependence and rising incomes at home.
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