Researchers

William Seitz

Abstract

In early 2017, the Government of Uzbekistan announced a radical shift toward liberalizing national economic, social, and political policy. The rapid pace of reforms posed unique challenges. Partners began aggressively tackling issues that had major implications for well-being – including for instance forced labor, trade policy, and exchange rate unification – while the capacity to measure effects and public support was limited. The Listening to the Citizens of Uzbekistan (L2CU) project was a rapid and adaptive response to these needs. Together with partners, the World Bank launched a comprehensive and nationally representative in-person household well-being survey in 2018. A phone-based monitoring system was then deployed, collecting more than 1500 household interviews in a panel design every month from a sub-sample of the participating households from the baseline. An additional COVID-19 specific module has been added to the survey.  L2CU is being used to monitor social and economic impacts of the outbreak and to support government communications and social assistance responses.

Project Outcomes of Interest

Economic well-being, the impact of policy on vulnerable people, views on reform programs and public policy

Partners

World Bank, Development Strategy Center, UNICEF, Nazar Business and Technology (NBT)

Impact Goals

Project Data Collection Mode

Link to Data Collection Instruments

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/6106a9pt9xnfdey/AAD7DIqAUqG1RsIhQfgQpqg3a?dl=0

Results Status

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