Moldovan society needs a much firmer external lever for increasing the pressure put on the government and for stimulating the reformation process, executive director of the Independent Analytical Center “Expert-Grup” Adrian Lupusor said in a public debate, quoted by IPN.
According to him, Moldova is not a self-sufficient state and the assistance provided by the foreign development partners plays thus a special role.
“The problem resides in the fact that the development partners haven’t been sufficiently incisive and didn’t impose enough conditions and even didn’t appropriately monitor the use of the technical and financial assistance offered to Moldova,” said Adrian Lupusor.
He noted the development partners must exert more pressure so as to hasten the negotiation and signing of a new program with the IMF so as to increase the foreign exchange reserves that are now at a rather low level and to oblige the government to promote systemic reforms. A new program with the IMF will also unlock the financing promised by the World Bank, the European Commission and other partners. This financing is very important not only for supporting the budget, but also for continuing the reforms started in different sectors of the Moldovan economy.
“We suggest toughening up the conditions of providing technical and financial assistance by the development partners, while the process of monitoring the use of this assistance should be much more intense,” added Lupusor.
Asked how this toughening will affect the people of Moldova, Adrian Lupusor said the impact will be positive. “The people will have better roads. Corruption in distributing funds for sporting companies and subsidies for agricultural producers will be rooted out. Everything will be for the ordinary people’s benefit,” he stated.
