Everything seems to be stacked against small business operators in BiH. Entre-preneurs can expect little or no help from banks or government bureaucrats to get started, and once on their feet, they face high taxes and tariffs. Small businesses can often power a vibrant economy, but it is not happening here.
Newspaper ads promising easy college degrees seemed too good to be true. As it turns out, the degrees are legal, but mostly worthless.
The part of the FBiH Railroad that operates the trains and lucrative freight business has been privatized for a small fraction of its worth. But railroad officials have not bothered to tell anyone. The move deprives the people of BiH money back from their huge investment planned for the railroad to fix tracks and other decaying infrastructure.
The RS planned to more tightly control a proliferation of private schools by applying a uniform set of rules. A look at the licenses granted and denied this school year shows that personal contacts and politics can change the way those rules are applied.
FBiH’s Prime Minister invested together with KD Investments, a Slovenian company, in 2000. Since then, the firm has made large amounts of money in BiH and so has the Prime Minister. But is he a beneficiary of the firm or its victim?
Olako trošenje, nepotrebni krediti i kupovina skupih putničkih i teretnih vagona mogli bi građane BiH ostaviti u dugovima koje će godinama vraćati umjesto željeznica koje još uvijek ne ispunjavaju svoju ulogu.
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Of 16,600 policemen in Bosnia and Herzegovina, only one is serving time on corruption charges. Polls, however, show that police are seen as one of the most corrupt of the country’s institutions.
Polls show that the public regards police as highly susceptible to corruption. But citizens are not heavily using the system police have set up to stop corruption.
Police are supposed to police themselves to rid themselves of bad officers. But the public rarely files complaints. When it does, they are ignored or the investigations are poorly done.
Police often are tempted by bribes and the lure of extra jobs just to make ends meet on their low wage – wages that don’t even cover the cost of a uniform.
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