outpace funding for health and school education, (GAO) in 2023 was 6.4 percent, and relative to priorities, and inefficiencies in resource allocation limit the impact of this spending. The share of public to agriculture. These peers' agricultural public expenditures amount to 1.0 percent of the GDP compared with Uzbekistan's average of 2.8 percent peers for Uzbekistan, such as China, Kazakh- stan, and Viet Nam, where agriculture makes up a substantial share of GDP and employment, also invest significantly in irrigation, with expenditures 53. Given this high fiscal cost, spending quality is must be aligned with fiscal discipline. The primary in economic and social benefits. Without high- pact to high-impact programs and policy measures. This strategy promotes long-term, climate-resilient public stockholding; and miscellaneous services.26 54. The OECD framework for analyzing budgetary 55. This classification helps differentiate public support (GsS). DFPs include payments based on outputs; payments based on variable inputs; spending. General sector support is regarded as payments for fixed capital investments; payments for provision of public goods and services, meaning on-farm services; coupled payments per hectare or that, if effectively implemented, they could yield animal; decoupled payments per hectare or animal; substantial returns on agricultural investments. and other payments. GsS comprises agricultural Investments in AKis, in particular, are considered knowledge and innovation systems (AKiS); inspec- highly beneficial for agriculture, based on extensive tions and controls; development and maintenance of infrastructure; marketing and promotion; costs of