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INTERVIEW

great financial facilitations which they get, I consider that the greatest economic
they are unfair competition to the national problem in this country at the moment, which
companies. One must not allow a trained
employee from our clothing factories to will be a burden in the future as well, is
leave to a factory from the Technological- the bad educational policy which has a very
Industrial Development Zones where the
company is exempt from the payment of negative reflection on the development
taxes and salary contributions. This not of the economy. In this past period we were
only damages the national company, but building faculties in every corner and we
also damages the health, pension and dis- considered that if everyone finishes some
ability insurance funds. The grants and sub- type of higher education, the person would
sidies which these companies get from the find a job more easily, and the economy would
country should be used for additional quali-
fication and training as well as for retrain- develop. However, what we obtained are
ing of the unemployed persons from the unemployed people with higher education,
Employment Agency, rather than for the whose type or level of knowledge is not
employment of trained employees. Without
the entry of companies which will use tech- necessary to the economy
nologies with higher added value, we would
not be able to increase the salaries of the much more than they will earn at home. In
employees, thereby the standard of the citi- the future we must work more seriously on
zens of Macedonia. this discrepancy if we would like to change
the structure of the economy and to raise
In your opinion, what economic issue the standard of the employees and the en-
has the greatest negative potential and re- tire population.
quires a solution as soon as possible?
Zoran Jovanovski
А. Dimitrov: I consider that the greatest
economic problem in this country at the
moment, which will be a burden in the fu-
ture as well, is the bad educational policy
which has a very negative reflection on the
development of the economy. In this past
period we were building faculties in every
corner and we considered that if everyone
finishes some type of higher education, the
person would find a job more easily, and the
economy would develop. However, what we
obtained are unemployed people with high-
er education, whose type or level of knowl-
edge is not necessary to the economy. The
national or the foreign investors would not
decide to build high-tech factories if they
assess that we do not have enough quali-
fied staff which would possess sufficient
knowledge and skills. On the other hand,
the national companies lack qualified staff,
even if it is a matter of people with second-
ary vocational education. Now many gradu-
ate students easily decide to leave abroad,
where usually they fulfill positions that are
not related to their education at all. What
matters of course is that they will earn

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