ArmInfo.About 100 thousand new jobs can be created in Armenia annually. This is precisely the approximate development potential of our economy today. A similar opinion was expressed by ArmInfo Chairman of the Republican Union of Employers of Armenia Gagik Makaryan.
"If we try to calculate the average indicator of the number of new jobs created as a result of companies opened in 2018-2019 - from 2 to 14, then we get exactly 100 thousand employees. The indicator, in general, is quite good, but only for the first look.In reality, no more than 23 thousand new jobs are created, the rest - natives of the "shadow". But even this figure looks quite impressive, given that by 2018 no more than 9,000 new jobs were created in Armenia annually, "he emphasized.
According to a post published on Facebook by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan, in Armenia, according to the State Revenue Committee, from May 2018 to this day 65 thousand jobs have been identified, which showed a 12 percent increase in the labor market.
However, according to the expert, the existing potential does not develop for a number of reasons. In particular, the inaccessibility of credit for citizens intending to do business. The second reason is the limited domestic market, which often prevents newcomers from confronting competition. However, according to Makaryan, part of the new private entrepreneurs and firms are created for one-time purposes, for example, obtaining a loan.
The expert associates this growth with the eradication of certain monopolies, the emergence of new development programs developed by citizens, the eradication of unnecessary inspections, the prosecution of economic entities by the tax authorities, and the small but improved conditions for lending to small and medium-sized businesses by commercial banks. All these circumstances, according to his estimates, allow us to talk about the real nature of the data published by the Prime Minister.