Monday, January 16 2017 15:32
Naira Badalian

Tatul Manaseryan confident Armenian Prime Minister not informed about mid-ranked chains work low quality

ArmInfo. Tatul Manaseryan, Ph.D,   the Alternative Research Center Head, thinks that Armenian Government  head is not informed about "disgraceful" work of the mid-ranked chain  of republican official entities. This was stated by him at a press  conference on January 16. 

According to the economist, at least the half of official staff of  the state entities are not at their places and does not deserve the  salary paid. Besides, Manaseryan thinks that several Ministries  should be cancelled at all, because they are operating duplicated  functions and the useful coefficient of these entities for the  country is zero. The expert also calls out to cancel the practice of  staff rotation. "The person is incapable to do the work he is  assigned to, and, instead of being fired, he is assigned to another  position," he stated. In this respect, the expert considers the  staffing policy as the first priority  for the Prime Minister. 

All the prime Ministers of Armenia had a wish to reach positive  changes in the country, the economist states. But the lack of team  performance is still there. At the same time the expert informed,  that after the Government changed, he sent a Road map of Armenia  Development, drafted four years ago, hoping for cooperation. "Instead  of that I got a "disgraceful answer", stating that many provisions  are already implemented. The reason is the awful work of the  mid-ranked chain," the expert said. "Today we succeeded only with the  team work in the Government, because many people realize that in the  result of proper reforms they will become unemployed," Manaseryan  stated. 

To remind, Tatul Manaseryan and the Alternative Center leaded by him,  had developed and submitted  to authorities the Road Map of Armenian  Economy Development, comprising several scenarios  in respect to the  export and investments attraction. The key stone of the project was  the improvement of the country's human potential.

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