Oh, guys, I was puchit from these international rankings. And especially on the response to our sacred points "iksperdov". Ukraine has risen to 64th position in the Doing Business. Christ, what a blessing! Poroshenko screams - my merit. "Green" - is not our. Immediately jumped evrointegranty: and Georgia in the 7th place, It all made! You seriously think so? Then you have never been in Georgia, and certainly did not conduct business there. And why everyone is silent, Luxembourg takes 72 a place? Although their GDP per capita $114 234, and in the US - $3095?
I'll start, perhaps, with "Duingen", and Georgia finished. Although very much want - on the contrary. But entertaining and funny leave a snack. so, what Doing Business? This is an annual ranking of the ease of doing business of the World Bank, which is compiled on the basis of estimates, exhibited lawyers, auditors, accountants, etc.. in terms of the impact of regulatory legal acts on the activity of the average company.
This is not the investment attractiveness rating. This is not a rating of the potential opportunities of the economy. There is not estimated public debt, interest rates, solvency of the population, and very roughly - the level of corruption. Solely in terms of direct impact on business. And there is also an indirect. Therefore, the results are amazing.
The lightest we who? Neophytes of the European way of development. Georgia - 7 position, Lithuania - 11th. Estonia on 18th place, Latvia on the 19th. Kazakhstan ranks 25 line, Russia - 28, Turkey - 33, Azerbaijan - 34 , Poland - 40, Armenia - 47, Moldova - 48, Belarus - 49, Bulgaria - 61, Slovakia - 45, Romania - 55th, Hungary - 52.
I do not know, how objective assessment of Russia and Belarus. Can, there really is not too difficult to do business, as it seems. But why "graze the rear» Luxembourg, Malta, San-Marino, that got lost among African and Latin American countries? And they have something what problem? banditry no, no corruption, ideal road, Financial crises are a party.
Access to electricity. Greatly underestimate this factor. And it is very important. What can be business, if there is no electricity? And connect to electricity in Ukraine - is a science of survival. Here it is necessary not only "zabashlyat" officially, but also to find a common language with the managers of energy companies, dummy owners energolimitov etc.
It turns out, that the six criteria, which exposed the consolidated rating Doing Business, accounted for only very specific moments.
1) Building Permits. Well, this we, frankly, full ass. difficult to obtain, and be sure, that hindsight is not canceled - even more difficult.
2) Access to electricity. Greatly underestimate this factor. And it is very important. What can be business, if there is no electricity? And connect to electricity in Ukraine - is a science of survival. Here it is necessary not only "zabashlyat" officially, but also to find a common language with the managers of energy companies, dummy owners energolimitov etc.. And the cost of our electricity is already above, than in Eastern Europe. No wonder Igor Kolomoisky started buying electricity in Russia. Image - nothing, profit - all. And our energy reform, for which a low bow Europe, cheap personal will not be.
3) Registration of property and land. register can. Be sure, that no one will overwrite the register your property for yourself - you can not. raiding was, there will be. Is everything!
4) Obtaining loans and borrowers Base. Well, as for me, no problems with it. Problems with non-return of credits - we have a share of non-toxic loans (NPL) in portfolio of banks 51,68% of the total number. Therefore, most of the foreign banks, that there "grazed" so well in the mid-2000s, already drapanul. And others have shrunk to the level of a formal representation.
5) Protection of minority shareholders. know comments. instead Posmeemsya. We can even go to court, experience all the charm of the domestic judicial system BDSM.
6) international trade: import clearance time, certification requirements, etc.. It's all like a standard bureaucratic, but it is so corrupt, that enter into the business side without-established "channels" - a recipe for commercial fiasco. And how much is not reformed customs, hipsters it does not appoint (such as Maxim Nefedova), foreign consultants do not hire, The situation does not change.
Now two questions arise? What, Georgia better? And worse in Luxembourg? And why in Luxembourg, which occupies 72 th place in the ranking, over the past year has gone $20,318 billion. foreign direct investment, and in Ukraine - $2,5 billion.? While, Luxembourg area is comparable, rather, not with Ukraine, and Georgia, which last year invested much $1,86 billion. foreign direct investment, despite the 7 th place in the Doing Business. In the words of Taras Bulba: "Well son, you helped your Poles?».
And here it is very important to look, due to which Georgia has such a high score, and in Luxembourg - low. In paragraphs "access to electricity", "Paying Taxes" (Offshore there are offshore), "international trade", investor protection etc.. Luxembourgers have them all wonderfully.
Problematic are "registering property" and "access to credit". Wishing to enter into the tiny harbor in the financial center of Europe so much, that no longer accept new. Register your business in Luxembourg is very difficult. We must take some of the local. And the entire adult population of a total of 602 thousand. people have already "sold out"
Problematic are "registering property" and "access to credit". Wishing to enter into the tiny harbor in the financial center of Europe so much, that no longer accept new. Register your business in Luxembourg is very difficult. We must take some of the local. And the entire adult population of a total of 602 thousand. people have already "sold out". The same problem with the banking system. It is not that, to get a loan, and elementary to open an account: willing to bring money so much, they refuse trite.
Where poor investors filed? Can come to us. Invest in bonds or in banks. Or to invest in Georgia. There are all easy and wonderful, as we see on points: and you will be connected to electricity, and business register, and sell property, and a building permit will be issued. And export leafs, wine and "Borjomi"(I do not know, what else can be exported from Georgia?) and no problems at all. Bindings, as uvezesh.
Do not want, infection! Do not invest in the rating Georgia. And even in the "polureytingovuyu" Ukraine. Strive to hook or by crook to get to Luxembourg. comes, ease of business, as well as in the behavior - it does not always gud. Matter and other factors, which together create a sense of the mass of convenience and comfort. And I understand these people.
Because all the advertising slogans about the Caucasian Las Vegas, of branded boutiques and restaurants of high cuisine in a nice Georgian Batumi breaking on first, with what you encounter during booking, even the coolest, on the waterfront, four stars: proposal to pay cash, not card. And, not just in cash on arrival, and prepayment of Kiev "Gog, which come from Givi ", of course, without any checks and receipts.
corruption, of course, no no. But if the ski resort of road closures because of the threat of collapse, the only way to unlock it - to ask the innkeeper to agree with the "boss" of the local emergency service to clean or miss.
And all this is so reminiscent of the Ukraine early 90's, just wonder: where the eyes of the World Bank, which assigns a squiggle and of Doing Business? They did not even bother, that the volume of investments to Georgia 2018 He was reduced to 34,9% (!) compared with 2017 year. As said Deputy Minister of Economy and Sustainable Development Catherine Mikabadze: decline in foreign investment is not related to any fundamental risk or deterioration of the investment environment. And what it involves? With the improvement of the investment environment?!
And to understand, with which it is linked to the fact, I suggest to check out the fragments of the wonderful opus one potential investor, albeit small, I have found in LJ. You will understand.
Due to the chaotic building, and the lack of state control wonderful Batumi turned into one continuous construction, partially abandoned. Unfinished stick around, and the area around them resembles the effects of a nuclear explosion because of the construction waste mountains
"I do not like" pouring water ", so explain its decision to sell the property and to leave Batumi follows:
1. Starting from the very 2011 of the year, I bought 4 apartments in Batumi, property prices slow, but consistently declined. If before the flats in conventional towers "Orbi" on the embankment of the cost $2000 per meter, now 1000-1200.
2. Due to the chaotic building, and the lack of state control wonderful Batumi turned into one continuous construction, partially abandoned. Unfinished stick around, and the area around them resembles the effects of a nuclear explosion because of the construction waste mountains.
3. Most construction and existing buildings do not meet the standards of construction and SNIP. House not only lose the "commodity" form a couple of years after the date, but occasionally fall off from their balconies, crumbling plaster and broken off elevators.
AT 2012 I began to take an apartment in Batumi through Airbnb, and competitors were few - twenty apartments in the whole city. Today on Airbnb several thousand apartments on $25-30 per day, and on utilities costs increased from 2011 year three times (We consider washing clothes, cleaning, replacement bulbs cranes-ware, redecorating).
This is the situation we are discussing, where do you live in Batumi by themselves and rent out their apartments and serve. But not everyone can afford to go to live in Georgia. In previous years, the Commission is at about the city 20% the profits. After, as the competition for the delivery of increased and prices fell - taking 40% the profits. think about it, any abnormal will wash clothes, to repair damage, meet and see off tourists for 2,5 treats? It does not happen.
Who is going to take your apartment in Batumi? Good question. The city has about 100 firms, specializing in the delivery of housing, but only a few can be trusted. Trust me, 9 of 10 firms - the usual irresponsible blockheads, and some even crooks. Many came across on the, that their apartments were taken in the management of strange girl with Ukraine for ridiculous 10% the profits. And then rented an apartment to prostitutes and their clients.
In past years, 80% all property buyers were Ukrainians, Belarusians and Russians. AT 2018 year among our people buying was already about 30%, and the rest 70% This is Turkey, Iraq, Iran and the Emirates. A once famous resorts of the USSR transformed Batumi into a solid construction and the Arab market. The Turks are buying a house to come and play in the casino, plus shoot inexpensive Georgians. Arabs for the same reason.
The Georgian leadership has too many years give interested persons an opportunity to do all in Batumi, they came into our heads. Buy flats and houses, hand over, earn. Even taxes are not required to pay, at least, punitive sanctions was not. Furthermore, infinitely liberal visa legislation - currently live year round in Georgia, no visa is not necessary. Nepoymi who come in large numbers. Now it depends on all Georgians, who are willing to at least something to pay, and that's a fact…».
