Features of Modernization Processes in the Economy of Uzbekistan and their Impact on Humanitarian Policy

Abstract

Modernization processes introduced in the economy of Uzbekistan at the turn of the millennium were aimed at introducing economic innovations in industry and agriculture. To a lesser extent, the corresponding changes affected the humanitarian sphere. The best results of economic transformations can already be observed in the development of the mining and processing industries, which have brought the state to a high industrially innovative level of development. Humanitarian factors, in particular the protection of human rights, lag far behind industrial successes in terms of the breadth of issues covered, the pace of implementation, and the consequences of reforms. Although certain shifts can be observed in the humanitarian sphere, which are still taking place, albeit at a slower pace.

The analysis of the implemented changes, a wide list of features of Uzbek innovations gives reason to hope that the economic breakthrough will contribute to the improvement of the situation in the sphere of observance and protection of human rights. Complexities of the social dimension are caused not only by miscalculations of politicians. The vast majority of problems in the humanitarian sphere are related to the deep roots of the Muslim identity of the Uzbek people, their culture and beliefs, which are not acceptable to some of the attitudes of the modernized societies of today.

However, in connection with the gradual modernized development, as can be assumed, the gradual enrichment of the population as a whole as a result of economic growth, it is necessary to gradually improve the state policy aimed at protecting human rights, find effective methods of implementing humanitarian reforms, contribute to the improvement of their results, improve the quality work and training of the bureaucratic apparatus. At the same time, this can happen only if there is a democratic government and a modernized administrative apparatus, a civilized leadership of the country, which professes human values.

Positive forecast scenarios for the further development of the country are connected and will depend also on other important factors, namely on the deep interest in the modernization and democratization of Uzbekistan not only of global business structures, but also of leading international actors: the USA, China, Japan, countries of the Arab world, international financial organizations, etc. World players contributed to the country's civilizational development and helped the Uzbek people make an impressive breakthrough in the transition from the medieval state of the economy, which, due to the cotton factor of the first Russian and then the Soviet empire, “stuck” in the economy of Uzbekistan throughout the entire period of subordination to Russia, to a modern modern scientific and technical innovative state of the economy. Substantial foreign investments and concessional loans in leading industries – the mining and processing industry, the transport system, the banking sector, the introduction of innovative technologies, the provision of appropriate consulting assistance, have brought the state of Uzbekistan to an honorable place among the industrially developed countries of the world.