WHO FISHES AND DIVIDES IT
Hakob Badalyan
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11:14:05 – 18/02/2010
Listening to representatives of international organizations who
describe the economic benefits Armenia will have after the opening of
the Armenian and Turkish border you think that either those people
are mildly speaking naïve or they take the Armenian citizens mildly
speaking for naïve people. Many announced about the paradisiacal
effect of the opening of the border- the International Monetary
Fund, the World Bank, as well as the Western countries engaged in
the Armenian and Turkish process.
Those foreign officials, having dealt with Armenia for a long time,
being well informed about the economic-political values and their
bearers, imagining very well the mechanism of formation of the Armenian
government, the world vision of the heads of that mechanism, their
ideas on the state citizens, laws and rights, freedoms, are supposed
not to dwell on any paradisiacal effect.
The Armenian economy fully belongs to the government. If an enterpriser
is not in the field of the government political preferences, serious
problems for their activities appear. There is no need to bring
examples for the international organizations because the regular
visits of their various missions must have enough means to imagine
the whole situation. The zero level of the competition in the Armenian
economic field is not determined by the circumstance that the Armenian
and Turkish border is closed but by the will of the government. It is
the government to have divided the economy between monopolists making
them shareholders and being engaged in business with the help of them.
Can any "emissary" who visits Armenia and advertises the opening
of the Armenian and Turkish border explain how it will eliminate
the link between the government and the business in Armenia? Which
is going to be the mechanism forbidding the government to share the
economic profit gotten from the opening of the Armenia-Turkey border
the way the current economic interest is shared? At least, so far, no
one has presented any mechanism which is going to change the quality
and the way of dividing the economic interest in case of the opening
of the Armenian and Turkish border.
The main problem hindering the development of the Armenian economy
is this: a really independent economy with competitive conditions is
to be formed enabling the citizens decide the amount and the level of
development in accordance with their professional skills, education and
abilities. Otherwise, goods and services may cheapen and the export
may increase. This is not the main obstacle for the development of
Armenia’s economy and civilization. Citizens of course may be given
some "fish" not to be hungry but the essential is to give them the
possibility "to fish". No international professional has explained
or is explaining how the opening of the Armenian and Turkish border
will solve this issue if in Armenia it is the government and not the
law to decide the limit of possibilities of citizens. It is difficult
to explain and for international experts it is easier to excite the
Armenian citizens with "cheap sausages" considering it enough for
Armenian citizens.
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
