From: Justin Burke (JBurke@sorosny.org)
Date: Thu Nov 30 2000 - 10:19:24 EST
UZBEK VILLAGERS CONFIDENT ECONOMIC SITUATION WILL IMPROVE?
A poll conducted in various oblasts of Uzbekistan by the
country's Public Opinion Center suggests that the rural
population is more confident that the economic situation in
the country will improve over the coming year than are city-
dwellers, RFE/RL's Tashkent bureau reported on 29 November.
Only 10 percent of an unspecified number of respondents said
they think their personal economic situation will deteriorate
over the next 12 months; 60 percent said they believe the
country's economic situation will improve over that period.
Inhabitants of the Ferghana and Namangan regions, where both
population density and unemployment are high, generally
professed to be optimistic that the economic situation will
improve, while urban dwellers were less upbeat. Independent
observers have queried the accuracy of the poll's findings.
LF
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