The Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) Europe office named Uzbekistan its 'country of the month' for May, in recognition of the nation's progress in developing comprehensive policies to overcome poverty and improve social protection in recent years. In May 2022, J-PAL, which was co-founded by Nobel Prize for Economics winners Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, together with the Centre for Economic Research and Reforms, organised a seminar in cooperation with the Uzbekistan government to assist in the development and testing of innovative approaches to improve state programmes designed to combat poverty.
