Publication: At Your Service?: The Promise of Services-led Growth in Uzbekistan
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2025-01-07
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2025-01-07
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In Uzbekistan, the services sector accounts for more than half of all jobs and has been central to the process of structural transformation over the past three decades. In the past decade, the growth of Uzbekistan’s services exports has lagged behind its manufactures' exports while FDI greenfield announcements to both sectors have been even. The growth of the services sector in the past five years was driven by social services, mostly reflecting increased public spending. This report groups the services sector into four categories based on their skill intensity, the extent of their linkages with other sectors, and their tradability in international markets: low-skilled consumer services, low-skilled enabling services , global innovator services. Of these groups, social services accounted for three-fourths of employment growth in the services sector between 2017–2022. These services also experienced relatively high rates of labor productivity growth, which was largely driven by higher public spending on wages and salaries.
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“World Bank. 2025. At Your Service?: The Promise of Services-led Growth in Uzbekistan. © World Bank. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/42619 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.”
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