Economic Management Improvement Facility

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The proposed economic management improvement program aims to strengthen economic management in Uzbekistan and thus support macroeconomic stability and sustained high growth. Macroeconomic stability, in turn, implies stronger resilience to adverse economic shocks. This is of critical importance in Uzbekistan as the country is pursuing regional integration and economic diversification. The program will introduce important fiscal reforms to ensure fiscal sustainability; improve governance in state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to make their operations financially viable; improve access to bank finance by strengthening bank supervision so as to facilitate competitive financing of private sector operations (especially small and medium enterprises); and strengthen economic data collection, analysis, management, and dissemination systems to bolster economic decision making. The programmatic approach and policy-based loan will finance two subprograms to be implemented during 2018-2019. Attached transaction technical assistance will assist in implementing the program.