The PRINCIPLE of GRADUALISM ensures the country's high economic growth rates and successful implementation of market reforms At the beginning of the last decade, when new states appeared on the world map instead of the collapsed Soviet Union, all of them, including the Central Asian republics, had to solve the same, truly global task of building an independently functioning economic system. At the same time, the solution of this problem was complicated by the fact that it was not so much about building, but rather about rebuilding the "fragment" of the former huge economic space inherited by each state. The main problem faced by the newly independent states is the skew in economic development in one or another industry, which was a consequence of the policy of division of labor in the USSR. Despite the commonality of economic problems, each state had different starting opportunities for the development of its own economy, and therefore chose its own model of economic transformation, unlike others. Let us consider the features of Uzbekistan's economic development in the 1990s and 2000s and the model of transition to a market economy chosen in this state. diagnosis: SLOW DEGRADATION In the USSR, Uzbekistan was assigned the role of one of the main suppliers of industrial and agricultural raw materials-gas, various minerals, cotton, fruits and vegetables, although there were also powerful manufacturing and machine-building enterprises. The economic base inherited by this country seemed more than unenviable. It was characterized by a monocultural focus on growing raw cotton. Moreover, most of the cotton-over 70% - was exported from the republic in unprocessed form or after primary processing, which significantly reduced export revenues .1 In 1988, the share of workers in the agricultural sector of the economy was 37.8% of the total number of people employed in the national economy, exceeding the share of those working in industry and construction (23.7%) by 1.6 times 2 . ... Читать далее