ARMENIA NEEDS SERIOUS AND RADICAL CHANGES:EX-FINANCE MINISTER
/ARKA/
11 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, June 11. /ARKA/. Serious and radical changes must be brought
to Armenia , ex-Minister of Finance, prorector of Russian-Armenian
(Slavonic) University Eduard Sandoyan points out.
According to the competitive ability data fr om the World economic
forum Armenia is behind very many countries in a number of quality
indices characterizing business environment, such as economy
regulation, antimonopoly management, tax administration, Sandoyan
clarified.
All these issues, according to him, are systematic.
“We didn’t have, don’t have, and I am afraid we won’t have in the
nearest future any effective institutes for competition protection;
there are issues with the institute for property protection, contract
enforcement system, institute for human rights, protection of hired
employees’ rights,” Sandoyan said at “Armenian Friday” talk show on
Kentron TV channel.
Finance ex-minister also thinks that Armenia failed to form organized
and modern tax system, moreover, according to his assessments, there
are a number of other risks which are hardly ever mentioned.
In this context he referred to emigration issue, for instance
to Russia. Armenians are mobile people due to some objective and
subjective reasons, they will always be attracted by some friendly
countries, such as Russia, where they have neither language, nor
cultural and historical difficulties, and the level of life is 3.5-4
times higher than in Armenia, he added.
“It means that if we fail to form effective economy and more favorable
life, emigration threat will be haunting us,” the expert said.
People do not want to live poorly, and an person of the twenty first
century of Internet will find easily the place where the level of
life is higher, and wh ere he will live better, Sandoyan noted.
The expert mentioned Georgia as a good example of a country carrying
out effective reforms in struggling against corruption, forming
competitive environment, conducting antimonopoly policy.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress