Тhe conclusions of our study that provides an answer to this question, together with a set of #recommendations, we presented today to the working group for dealing with the #gray economy at the Ministry of Finance.
The policy study will be published soon.
The project is supported by GIZ North Macedonia.
More: https://www.rcc.int/balkanbarometer/publications
Today we held a kick-off meeting for the preparation of the Scoping study to structure a green and social oriented program for the Development Bank of North Macedonia, with the main partner GFA Consulting Group GmbH, and with the support of AFD – Agence Française de Développement.
Finance Think become becomes a part of a new global initiative led by People Powered and funded by the National Endowment for Democracy. While government reformers are increasingly securing public participation in decision-making, marginalized groups are too often left out or excluded. This limits the impact of democratic innovations. The program will make participatory democracy more inclusive of youth, women, and displaced people (including refugees, immigrants, and internally displaced people).
The initiative’s activities, which will extend through the first quarter of 2024, will include:
More on the project on the following link.
We continue with workshops for optimization of parafiscal charges and establishing a dialogue for policy making at the local level.
Representatives of the Municipalities and the business sector are present at the workshops.
This week we worked with: Municipality of Kocani Municipality of Berovo Municipality of Makedonska Kamenica Municipality of Stip Macedonia Municipality of Kriva Palanka Municipality of Gevgelija Municipality of Bogdanci Municipality of Studenicani
The interview can be accessed here.
The workshop aimed to assist in the process of optimization of parafiscal charges, and was held in Skopje, May 26, 2022.
Our Blagica Petreski spoke at the Open Balkan Forum in Belgrade, Serbia, organized by Libertarijanski Klub -LibeK-.
The Finance Think team is on a working visit to Montenegro, May 18-20, 2022. The regionalization of our work leads us to meetings with dear colleagues from the Institut Alternativa and the ISSP Institute for Strategic Studies and Forecasting in Podgorica.
Our Bojan Srbinoski participated in the round table “From CEFTA to the single EU market: Lessons learned from Visegrad-4 for the Western Balkans-6”, organized by the Montenegrin Pan-European Union and @Robert Schuman Institute (Budapest).
Finance Think is a partner in the project “Support from Visegrad-4 to promote the common regional market in the Western Balkans-6: One market for post-pandemic recovery”, supported by the International Visegrad Fund.