THE IMPORTANCE AND ROLE OF STATE PROGRAMS IN POVERTY REDUCTION

The article highlights that poverty reduction is one of the most important, priority, and multidimensional directions within Uzbekistan’s strategy for sustainable socio-economic development and occupies a central place in the system of large-scale reforms implemented in the country. The study substantiates the necessity of systematically regulating this process by the state, analyzing poverty as a multifactorial phenomenon, developing new mechanisms of social protection, and aligning them with international standards.