Darya Urban
The estimate of labor market conditions in terms of economic crisis by representatives of small and medium businesses
The crisis situation in Belarus has already been lasting for a few years now. Macroeconomic instability has direct influence on nation’s welfare through the labor market.
Doing business conditions in Belarus
In spite of constant activity aimed at liberalization of doing business conditions and an indicators’ increase which are studied by the World Bank (rating Doing Business, indicator “distance to the front line”), quantitative statistical indicators of small and medium businesses show almost complete absence of changes.
Voluntary medical insurance of employees in Belarus
Recommendations relatively to the necessary changes in the system of voluntary medical insurance of employees in Belarus were prepared by the expert group in scopes of project REFORUM.
Which reforms does belarusian business expect
The paper presents the evaluations of the impact of administrative barriers for business development, the relevance of reforms and initiatives of the government's intentions and actions of the National Bank by the representatives of small and medium sized enterprises.
Condition of corruption in Belarus in perception of small and medium business
Corruption spreading is temperate in overwhelming majority of business activities, according to the results of SME polling, made in May 2015.
The draft directive on the development of entrepreneurship: old declarations or new solutions?
In March 2015 the Ministry of Economy issued a draft directive "On additional measures for the development of entrepreneurship initiatives and promote business activity in the Republic of Belarus" for public comment. This directive is intended to "give a new impulse implementation for principles laid down in Directive № 4." Directive № 4 on December 31, 2010, in turn, involves a number of steps towards liberalization of economic activity and "in the end - the creation of a barrier-free business environment." New draft directive largely echoes the contents of the previous document. Most of the provisions of the Directives largely overlap, some of them are not presented in the documents as separate provisions, and as a sub, but substantively they coincide.
Internal barriers for private business development in Belarus
The paper presents an overview of the results of focus groups conducted in the study of internal barriers for private business development in Belarus "Return of Belarus to the path of involving growth: realizing the potential of the private sector".