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Nazarov, Abdushukur

Tajik economist Abdushukur Abdurahimovich Nazarov was born in

Leninabad on May 10, 1944.

Nazarov graduated from Moscow State University in 1967. In 1967

and 1968, he was the Scientific Secretary to the Optimal Planning and

Production Association at the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan. From

1969 to 1972, he was a post-graduate student at the Center for

Economics and Mathematics of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet

Union. From 1974 to 1981, he was the Head of the Economics Division

of the Institute of Economics of the Academy of Sciences of Tajikistan.

In 1981, he became the Director of the Productivity Division of the

Tajik branch of the Research Institute of the State Committee of the

Soviet Union regarding labor and social issues. He received his

doctorate degree in economics in 1983.

Nazarov's research deals with the theoretical aspects of socialist

labor, especially factors affecting increase in labor productivity. His

contributions include Hosilnokii Mihnat Muhimtarin Omili Samarai

Istihsolot (Labor Productivity As the Most Important Factor in

Production Results, Dushanbe, 1978) and "Analiz sotsial'no-

ekonomicheskikh faktorov rosta proizvoditel'nosti truda" ("An Analysis

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