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State must increase employment&create more jobs

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According to official data, there are 188,000 employees and even 191,000 pensioners, social welfare recipients and unemployed people in Montenegro. This has obviously been a problem the state must resolve ASAP, claim collocutors of CdM.

Vasilije Kostić, an economic analyst and professor at the Faculty of Management in Herceg Novi, told CdM that the state should be worried about these figures as the situation should be the other way around. He said: “Even if it ever happens, we can’t be carefree as things don’t function so simple in the macroeconomic relations. The unemployment rate has been extremely high, as we all know, and the employed ones can’t bear the entire burden.”

If Montenegrin economy wants to grow, the state must increase the number of jobs and employ as many people as possible, according to Kostić.

Mirko Stanić, a spokesman of the Social Democratic Party (SDP), shared more-less the same opinion. The existing economic-social model in Montenegro, he added, has been unsustainable. He revealed some pretty much staggering figures, showing that over 50,000 people have been working in state administration, and that only around 120,000 people work in the private sector!

Stanić said: “Montenegro urgently needs a new economic model, which would strive to strengthen production as it used to be the case in the ‘90s. We import food worth over €400,000, while our export sale is by a few of tens of millions lower. We must do all we can to change this situation, we must employ our citizens and decrease the unemployment rate in our country.”

Zarija Pavićević of the Alternative Montenegro told CdM: “The state barely functions in these circumstances, only thanks to borrowings.”

When we cease to get loans, we won’t have money for pensions, salaries will decrease, employers will have to fire staff and the party membership won’t be important any more.

“The state will go totally bankrupt by 2020,” Pavićević told in a somewhat gloomy manner, adding that 30,000 employees will be fired, which is going to make the state’s economy even worse.

 

 

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