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36. 

 

Specific interventions addressing the ten priorities identified in the SCD would be 

defined based on their potential for job creation and/or the opportunity they may offer to 

move forward on new issues. These criteria are necessarily broadly defined and the WBG will 

not engage in every area. Besides a division of labor among development partners, two filters will 

be applied in selecting particular WBG interventions. The first would simply be the potential for 

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new job creation, directly for some interventions and indirectly for others in terms of creating 

conditions and/or removing barriers. The second would be the opportunity to address longstanding 

structural problems in Uzbekistan’s economy. Such opportunities could be the result of analytic 

and advisory activities undertaken by the WBG or others, as was the case for transport in the last 

CPS; they may also be the outcome of the authorities’ emerging interest driven by internal or 

external developments, as was the case for corporate governance and privatization. In both cases, 

such opportunities will be largely defined by the government’s readiness to move forward on a 

given agenda. The WBG will also seek to utilize innovative and/or highly pragmatic approaches 

to analytic work to address important issues on which government readiness is unclear. 

 

37. 

The CPF’s three Focus Areas reflect and complement current and planned activities