DUSHANBE, January 16, 2014, Asia-Plus – In 2013, money incomes of the population rose 18 percent and monthly wage rose 21.5 percent last year, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon announced yesterday at an enlarged meeting of the government.

The president noted that the country’s poverty rate decreased from 38.2 percent in 2012 to 35.6 percent in 2013.     

Rahmon is sure that there are many opportunities to promote gradual improvement of living conditions of the population.

We will recall that Emomali Rahmon noted on November 30, 2013 that Tajikistan’s poverty rate will decrease to 30 percent by 2015 and to 20 percent by 2020.  According to him, this can be reached due to implementation of the Living Standards Improvement Strategy of Tajikistan.

Tajikistan has designed, approved and developed the National Development Strategy up to 2015 and the series of mid-term Poverty Reduction Strategies.  The country has completed the second and the third phases of the poverty reduction strategy (2007-2009 and 2010-2012) and has developed the Living Standards Improvement Strategy of Tajikistan for 2013−2015.

The Living Standards Improvement Strategy of Tajikistan for 2013-2015 years is a concluding phase of a decade of implementation of the National Development Strategy of the Republic of Tajikistan up to 2015; it considers many issues related to achievement of many strategic objectives, such as reform of public administration, maintaining rule of law, demographic projection and planning, regulation of labor migration, development of private sector, supporting middle class.