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13.10.2011 - The land of paradoxes
In Moldova nothing is for granted. The rules exist just to prove the exceptions. The promises are made just to be broken. The definitions are being formulated just to be disputed. The coalitions are being created just to be disintegrated. Nothing can be settled.
Our Government – in order to continue the sequence of the paradoxes – is neither communist, nor political, technocratic or reformatory. It is hard to believe, if not even impossible, that none of the designated Ministers haven’t read the government program, maybe just the Prime Minister that was supposed to read it in the Parliament.
None of the Ministers is the author or a known promoter of any public policies and actual reforms. We have a temporary, intermediary government, just suitable to ensure a “decent” living for the mafia clans. The corruption and criminality will definitely represent its strongest performances.
I wrote the lines above 5 years ago (Mihai Roşcovan, Transition Journal, page 153), but it remained valid also for nowadays.
13.06.2011 - Municipal administration reform seen by the candidates for mayor of Chisinau
The current structure of the municipal authorities dates from the Soviet period and is significantly bureaucratized. This makes the work of the Chisinau administration inefficient and inefficacious.
During the tenure of the current mayor Dorin Chirtoaca, who is the Liberal Party’s candidate, a functional analysis study of the City Hall and its subdivisions was carried out with the assistance of foreign and national experts. The reform of the municipal administration is based on this study. Regretfully, this reform wasn’t implemented because the parties that formed the old Chisinau Municipal Council (CMC) did not have enough political will.
31.05.2011 - Comments concerning the study on the opportunity of modifying the principle of revenue tax withholding
The Coalition for Fiscal Decentralization has analyzed „The Study on the opportunity of modifying the principle of revenue tax withholding for physical and juridical persons who carry out an entrepreneurship activity by allocating it to budgets where the tax subjects have their domicile/residence, irrespective of the location of the source”, elaborated by the Ministry of Finance and thus presents its comments and propositions. The complex and homogeneous development of the localities in the Republic of Moldova can be ensured by creating an autoregulation system, by redirecting taxed financial resources to the domicile/residence of every tax paying physical or juridical person. Redirecting financial will limit the excessive concentration of all industrial activities, transport, the development of urban facilities only in certain localities. The autoregulating system will not imply big costs, but will have tangible effects on local level. The idea of redistribution of financial flows can be implemented with minimum efforts: the system operates as previously and only the distribution process is modified.
01.05.2011 - On April 29, 2011, at Chisinau there was launched the Report “The Reform of Central Public Administration in R. Moldova: Performance Evaluation of the Implementation”, financially supported by the Good Governance Program of Soros Foundation Moldova. The Report has been elaborated by a group of independent experts, coordinated by Business Consulting Institute. The experts have shown the evolution of the CPA Reform, including its favorable results and failures and made recommendations to guide future activities of CPA reformation.
03.08.2010 - Support the innovative use of remittance in productive rural investment
On July 21, 2010, Business Consulting Institute (BCI) in partnership with ProRuralInvest and Foundation for Economic Development and European Integration (FEDEI)conducted the launching conference of the project „Support the innovative use of remittance in productive rural investment”. The project is will be implemented during July 2010 – June 2012 and is financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development.
05.07.2010 - Good governance in Chisinau - introducing performance-based budget in the capital of Moldova
During the period 2010-2013, the Project „Good Governance in Chisinau – Introducing Performance – Based Budgeting in the Capital of Moldova” is being implemented in the Republic of Moldova. The Project is financed by the CEI/KEP Program and co-financed by the Assistance Program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland and is realized by the Polish Cooperation Foundation PAUCI in partnership with Business Consulting Institute (Republic of Moldova). The Project aims to promote good governance in Chisinau Municipality and particularly to improve the quality of financial management by introducing the performance–based budgeting model, build on the Polish experience.