The social contract: entrepreneurs

During the reporting period the Belarusian government has taken significant steps to simplify the business environment. Depletion previous growth factors led him to reconsider the attitude to private business and encourages liberalize the business environment. At the same time, avoiding negative political consequences, the authorities intention to retain maximum control of the situation and single-handedly set the rules of the game. In the absence of a full-fledged economic liberalization on the simplification of the business environment is contradictory. In addition, the situation of small and medium-sized businesses considerably worsened in the aftermath of the economic crisis in 2011.