Uzbekistan's transition to market relations determined the state policy in forming and development the class of real property-owners, but in recent years the government decided that this system doesn’t work for Uzbek society.On the first stage of reforms the government was working towards the privatization of state housing fund, small and medium trade enterprises, service, light and food industries, transport and construction. All these formed 52268 owners of trade, consumer services, public catering, and consumer cooperation entities.
At the second stage the privatization formed 2 million shareholders of privatized enterprises, 3 million owners of personal household plots, 85 thousand owners of private and small enterprises and 14 thousand of real estate owners.
Last, the privatization of industrial giants such as fuel and energy complex, chemical, metallurgical and machine-building industries is conducted, and it's carried out with wide attraction of foreign capital.
However, the picture drastically changed in recent years. Uzbek government seeks to establish a total state control over all spheres of public life and private enterprises. For example, the state controls private notaries, periodic retesting of lawyers, the issuance of warrants numbered forms, etc. At the moment all the private notaries in the country are closed and the numbers of state ones are limited. This creates big queues and slowing the service for public. There is no any appointment system implemented and people wake up at 5 am to be able to see the lawyer the same day.
The official reason for closures reported serious breach of the laws by private notaries, use of official powers for personal gain.
The issue of concealing private notaries and care of their income from taxes could be solved by tightening fiscal policy. The point here is something else: a private lawyer is independent and is guided only by law and doing what the law is not prohibited. A state notary is guided not only by law but also the guidance of executive power.
Another sphere of public life going towards nationalisation is private medical practice. The government wants to return the country’s health sector under the state control. In late September, the Oliy Majlis, the lower house of Uzbek parliament, adopted a bill to restrict the activities of private practitioners, which in practice means that all medical services will be provided only by the state medical institutions.
The authorities have their explanation of the issue. They believe that there are low qualified doctors working in private clinics and they bring harm to people, rather than provide them with real care. However, the Ministry of Health do not have any specific statistics regarding to medical errors in the private sector.
Thus, at the moment the transition to privatization and commercialisation smoothly leads to nationalisation and back to command economy, which limits competition, decreases efficiency and customer choice.
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Kubra
As an official reason the goverment says that there is too much corruption and illegal activities happening in private sectors right now.
back to communisim... hm.. i am not sure, but definetely not moving toward market economy.
Howerver if we talk about people i was quite surprised to see some changes during my last visit to Uzbekistan. There are so many job oportunites opened up for young people, decent salaries etc. Yes, I know those are small things and nothnig will really get better unless the political system itself is changed.
check it out.
somebody trying to put up a fight.