{"id":802,"date":"2018-03-28T15:35:51","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=802"},"modified":"2018-03-28T15:38:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T15:38:31","slug":"new-policy-comment-is-out-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=802","title":{"rendered":"New policy comment is out!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #993300;\">Policy comment \/\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><em>March 2018<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b><a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Policy-Comment-No.-4_final.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright wp-image-529\" src=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"230\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a>One country &#8211; two economic systems? The \u2018partial reforms\u2019 experiment in Belarus<br \/>\n<\/b><\/h3>\n<hr \/>\n<p>by\u00a0<em>Kamil K\u0142ysi\u0144ski <\/em>(OSW)<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&#8220;On December 22, 2017, Belarusian president Alexandr Lukashenka signed two important decrees: the first \u2018On the Development of Entrepreneurship\u2019 and the second \u2018On the Development of the Digital Economy\u2019. The degrees foresee an unprecedented opening of the private sector in Belarus, and give strong legal and tax incentives to the IT sector. They are the latest expression of a path that Belarus has taken over the past few years, in the course of which the IT sector has become a priority issue in economic policy.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, Belarus has firmly neglected recent calls by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to restructure its state-owned sector. The Belarusian authorities have thus sent conflicting signals by building islands of a modern economy based on high-tech technologies, a developed service sector and private entrepreneurship, while still sustaining the old ineffective economic model of command-and-control.(&#8230;)&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/Policy-Comment-No.-4_final.pdf\">Download (PDF)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Did you like it?\u00a0Please take a look at our <a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?page_id=495\">previous policy comments<\/a>!<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Policy comment \/\u00a0March 2018 One country &#8211; two economic systems? The \u2018partial reforms\u2019 experiment in Belarus by\u00a0Kamil K\u0142ysi\u0144ski (OSW) &#8220;On December 22, 2017, Belarusian president Alexandr Lukashenka signed two important decrees: the first \u2018On the Development of Entrepreneurship\u2019 and the second \u2018On the Development of the Digital Economy\u2019. The degrees foresee an unprecedented opening of&hellip;<a href=\"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/?p=802\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New policy comment is out!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=802"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eu-strat.eu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}