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8. 

Explicit focus on rural women is required to offset the potentially negative social effects 

of agricultural modernization.  Agricultural modernization will affect rural women, who comprise 

a large share of unskilled agricultural workers, disproportionally. Comprehensive efforts to provide 

alternative employment opportunities would include financing of innovations in micro-business, 

giving access to higher-value markets, providing access to credit, business support and training 

services. These will also provide access to loans for makhalla committees for financing public 

infrastructures, which would allow women to increase their income (e.g. organizing child-care 

services, implementation of innovations in water supply, and other public goods projects). 

                                                           

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 This section draws on the Uzbekistan Gender Assessment carried out by the Asian Development Bank in 2014, on 

National Statistical Committee information materials, and on WBG publications, e.g. Uzbekistan: Modernizing Tertiary 

Education, June 2014. 

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9. 

Interventions to address access barriers for women should be based on research evidence