BRIEFING | 29 NOVEMBER 2021
Uzbekistan’s Anti-Crisis Fund:
Analysis of state procurement in
2020
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Nina Lesikhina
Community support coordinator
CEE Bankwatch Network
ninalesikhina@bankwatch.org
Background
O
n 19 March 2020, the Uzbek Ministry of Finance established the Anti-Crisis
Fund in accordance with the presidential decree 1 ‘On priority measures to
mitigate the negative impact of the coronavirus pandemic and global crisis on
sectors of the economy’. It aimed to ‘finance measures to combat the spread of
coronavirus infection, to support entrepreneurship and ensure employment, to
extend social assistance and ensure economic operation in the country’. The Fund
mainly allocated dedicated loans from the international financial institutions,
including the Asian Development Bank (ADB), the European Bank for
Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank and International
Monetary Fund (IMF), and money from the state budget of Uzbekistan.
Graph 1.
Contributors to the Anti-Cisis Fund of Uzbekistan
(by July 2020), mln USD
Source: Ahor.Uz
Asian Development Bank
World Bank
European Union
31%
42%
EBRD
International Monetary Fund
17%
7%
3%
УКАЗ № УП-5969 ПРЕЗИДЕНТА РЕСПУБЛИКИ УЗБЕКИСТАН О ПЕРВООЧЕРЕДНЫХ МЕРАХ ПО СМЯГЧЕНИЮ
НЕГАТИВНОГО ВОЗДЕЙСТВИЯ НА ОТРАСЛИ ЭКОНОМИКИ КОРОНАВИРУСНОЙ ПАНДЕМИИ И ГЛОБАЛЬНЫХ
КРИЗИСНЫХ ЯВЛЕНИЙ, LexUZ, 19 March 2020.
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