DUSHANBE, January 4, Asia-Plus - An article by Tajik economists Inom Asrorov and Mahmadsharif Nozimov entitled “Main Directions of Extending of Economic Reforms in Tajikistan” published in the first issue of the monthly “Eaqtisod and Hayot”, official paper of Tajikistan’s Party of Economic Reforms, notes that reform should facilitate structural reorganization of economy, objectives and goals of which are determined by long-term interests of state and selection of those or these priorities of actions.  

Describing concrete branches of economy, on which, according to the researchers, the main attention should be focused, they propose to considerably raise a role of processing industry and the construction sector. 

“If in 1991, industry accounted for 25.3 percent of the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and construction accounted for 10.4 percent respectively, last year these indices reduced to 16 percent and 7.3 percent respectively,” the authors say, noting that a certain “deindustrialization” took place in the republic. 

The main objective of the reform is not only in rehabilitation of these branches but also in raising share of them in the structure of Tajikistan’s economy, the researchers stressed.