Vardan Bostanjyan, who is a professor with a PhD in economic studies, was interviewed by Aravot.
– Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan announced that the new government plan marks the beginning of the economic revolution. Have you seen the foundations for an economic revolution within this new plan? What are they?
– I can not give misleading thoughts. I did not see those foundations. The government plan is essentially a nice assembly of words that has no specific level, views, or visions of how to solve problems. This is a document that leaves an amateur and superficial impression.
– The representatives of the ruling force respond to those who oppose them by saying that the government’s five-year plans are typically like this; numbers and specific steps are outlined in the yearly budget. The 2019 budget has been approved and the Prime Minister called that inertia. So it seems that we will be living in inertia this year?
– “Traditionally,” “usually,” and other similar words should not be used now based on the fact that all the vulnerable moments we had over the past 25 years were due to unprofessionalism, superficiality, and inappropriate approaches. Now, this revolution was nothing more than a way to secure concrete, clear, and targeted institutions. But if we continue to respond to critics by saying “that’s how it usually was,” they will say what I am saying or what we have already heard.
Nelly Grigoryan
