On June 18 – 19, 2007, at Palais des Nations, the UN Headquarters in Geneva, the UN Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE, www.unece.org ) will held two important events, a Conference on Reducing Barriers to Entrepreneurship and Encouraging Enterprise Development: Policy Options and a Workshop on Business Registries The conference will deliberate in four sessions topics like Obstacles to Enterprise in Developed and Transition Economies, Reduction of Administrative and Regulatory Barriers, Lifting Tax and Finance Barriers to Enterprise Growth and Facilitating Cross Border Expansion; in addition: there is a round table on Good Practice to Fight Corruption Related to Enterprise Development. (For details see: http://www.unece.org/ceci/Welcome.htm).
From Kazakhstan, Dr. Aigul Toxanov, of the Economic Research Institute, in expected to speak on the topics.
The Workshop deals with a technical but significant issue: Development and Maintenance of Statistical Business Registers. The idea is to improve international coordination, improve comparability of statistics and reduce existing gaps between western and eastern countries. For the time being the Workshop website (http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2007.06.busreg.htm ) make available about 25 presentations and reports (five of them available in Russian) that represent the Business Reporters in Brasilia, OECD countries with a focus on best practice (Ireland, Italy) and Serbia, Croatia, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russian and other countries, and emphasize issues related to “fake” registration, information quality, accessibility, user-friendliness, operability, etc. We cannot give more information on Kazakhstan presentation/report, this section of the webpage is not working.
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