The Youth Policy of Uzbekistan in the Period of the Global Financial and Economic Crisis : Overview and Results

For the last years many countries of the world were experiencing the global financial and economic crisis and the most economies had negative impact from its consequences. Uzbekistan, while undertaking measures for prevention, overcoming and neutralizing of the consequences of this crisis, at the same time pursued active and all-round youth policy, having paid much attention to social, economic, legal, financial, organizational conditions of the youth development in a country. In this paper we describe all measures undertaken by the Government of Uzbekistan in crisis period on implementing strong youth policy in the country. The paper analyzes some results of implementing priority areas of the youth policy in Uzbekistan: education, youth employment, support of young families. A special attention is also paid to the concept of harmoniously developed generation as the main instrument for human capital accumulation process of young people in Uzbekistan