The emergence of a business class is being held back by a lack of awareness about economics and the law, analysts say.
According to an Avesta news agency reports from April 18, the International Finance Corporation and the Mountain Societies Development Support Programme, which is part of the Aga Khan Development Network, have agreed to work together to train businessmen about the way the law works, in particular what to do when they are inspected by official agencies.
Analysts interviewed by NBCentralAsia say ignorance about legal and economic matters is stunting private-sector development in Tajikistan, and small and medium-size businesses, SMEs, are in dire need of education programmes like this.
“Practice shows that especially in mountain areas, most businessmen have no idea about the laws that regulate inspections and often don’t know how to act when these happen,” said an expert with an international organisation that works with SMEs in Tajikistan.
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