Interview with famous political scientist, director of Center on Problems of European Integration on curent political and economic liberalization in Belarus.читать дальше »
2009 was a landmark year for Belarus in many ways. A common citizen (a reading and hearing one, at least) has habituated herself to such words as reforms, liberalization, privatization, IMF, international cooperation, Eastern Partnership, and so on.читать дальше »
Belarus needs green field privatization i.e. foreign direct investments, which our government have long been craving for. I say “direct”, because portfolio investments will not bring foreign currency to our country in the long term. In order to attract FDI we need a favorable business climate, when many rating agencies will agree in their estimates of our country, and when similar estimates will be given by local and international consultants who know the situation in the country firsthand. In order to attract FDI the Balkan countries had carried out a real liberalization of their business environments (from opening a business and developing it to its closure).читать дальше »