Features

If all the businessmen, bookkeepers, accountants and citizens were to

be forced into one TV set or on one billboard, perhaps they would be
able to find the “single window” promised to them, already a year ago,
by the Serbian prime minister himself. Everyone who wants to, it was
promised, should be able to appear at a window, either of the Pension
and Disability Insurance (PIO) Fund or the Republic Health Insurance
Institute (RZZO), it does not matter which, and to register or cancel
an employ at one place.

Once the Serbian government presents a concrete plan for the revision of this year’s budget and when, by the end of the year, it offers a draft budget for 2012, it will be clear how much it has succumbed to the pressure of the election campaign, and how much it has managed to show readiness to identify itself, in the face of the new world crisis, and before investors, with a firm budget policy and with the respect of the Law on the Budget System, writes the September issue of the Biznis i Finansije (BIF) magazine.

One of the examples of how good ideas take an unbelievable turn in the
domestic practice is also the stimulation of welfare entrepreneurship,
as a market way of reducing long-term unemployment and poverty. Much
more present in Serbia are debate between the state, experts and “old
and “new” welfare companies about who is endangering who in this
business, than the volume and quality of this type of support to
vulnerable groups, writes Milica Milovanović.

It is estimated that, each month, around 100 women who give birth in
Serbia freeze the blood from the umbilical cord of their newborn
children, as security for their safer future. For banks and insurance
companies this is a new market niche with a potentially large number
of clients with low payment abilities, but with high motivation. That
is why the offers are adapted to the circumstances, writes Bizinis i
Finansije (Business and Finance) monthly magazine.