Private Business in Belarus: Market Values and Attitude towards the Reforms
The private sector development in Belarus objectively becomes one of the key factors that would ensure development of the whole economy in the face on new challenges posed by boosting energy prices. At the same time, the success of the government’s policy of private sector support would also depend on private businesses’ behavior that has been formed in a distorted institutional environment. The paper presents findings of the research on economic mentality of private sector representatives against views of the whole Belarusian population, their attitude towards basic principles of market economy, as well as entrepreneurs’ capacity of supporting the reforms, their will and ability to function on a free market.