It is important to keep the government control over economic processes

            It is important to keep the government control over economic processes. Alexander Lukashenko made the relevant statement at the meeting with students and professors of the International Economic Relations Department of the Belarusian State Economic University.
Alexander Lukashenko remarked that the Belarusian economy is affected by crisis phenomena that happen across the globe. In his opinion, the government has no right to leave the economy when the economy is wide open.
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“Sovereign Belarus uses its own tried and tested economic development model, which relies on a combination of market economy institutions and effective mechanisms of government control and the implementation of a powerful social policy. The economic model has become the strategic foundation for the development of the Belarusian state. The system survives because it is flexible and gets constantly modernized.
Many say that the government should stay out of the economy or its presence should be miniscule. However, nobody has come up with a scale to measure involvement. But we have been clearly and determinedly saying from the start that government control should not be removed from the economy.
There are many heated arguments about the social aspect, too. Many say that a person should be responsible for himself and the economy should not contain any social component. We have been univocally saying for many years that everything that exists in the state should cater to the individual”.