The Moldovans have different talents and aptitudes and have entrepreneurial skills, while the Moldovan economy, which was allowed to breathe freely, discovers competitive advantages about which nobody thought, Prime Minister Iurie Leanca said in an interview for IPN.
“Who would have said in 2009 that Moldova would develop an industry of electrical and electronic components for vehicles? Today we have such an industry that attracts new investors and develops the technological competences of employees. I’m sure that in time it will lead to the appearance of fully local connected industries,” said the official.
According to Iurie Leanca, the information and communication technology is another very promising sector that developed practically independently, without support from the state, making a contribution to the GDP almost equal to that made by agriculture.
“Agriculture is certainly a very important sector for the Moldovan economy because it supplies several other competitive industries with raw material and provides employment opportunities for the residents from rural areas. We satisfy the requests of the farmers to support this sector, but I think that everyone understands that we cannot subsidize a certain sector by punishing other sectors,” said the Premier.
He added that agriculture can be developed easier by developing technological competences and post-harvest infrastructure and by removing market failures by providing massive subsidies, as in the developed countries.
“We must admit that we will not have such generous subsidies in the near future. That’s why, in accordance with the National Development Strategy Moldova 2020, we have seven priorities for developing the economy: the roads; training of the labor force; access to financing; security in supplying and efficiency in consuming energy; a durable pension system from social viewpoint; clear and simple game rules for the business and justice in which everyone believes,” said Iurie Leanca.
He also said that reforms were launched in the vocational education sector and in justice. “We are working on a roadmap that will remove the most serious regulatory constraints in the business activity. We count a lot on such electronic public services as e-criminal record and e-apostille, on the digitalization of all the documents of the Civil Status Office, switchover to an Electronic Register of Inspections, and simplification of business regulations so that different authorizations, licenses and documents are paid and obtained online, without intermediaries or without coming into contact with functionaries,” he stated.
The Premier considers that this way, the country will get rid of the suffocating bureaucracy and will enable the entrepreneurs to do business without facing the already symptomatic pressure on the part of the state.
