Message-ID: <ASGklHtOW7@mb.sorostm.ro> Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 18:46:40 +0400 From: Florin Jurcovici <mailto:fljurcovici@MB.SOROSTM.RO> Subject: Re: Boring - It's amongst the most non-boring articles I read on To: mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU
> I would (also) like to hear the opinion of friends and
> colleagues in the developing or third world regarding *their* perception of
> the US role in the so-called '1st/3rd world situation'. Hopefully this is
> not too boring to the DEVEL-L community ;-)
It's not boring for me, even I'm not from the 3rd world, but from eastern Europe.
I don't feel any US role in Romania (of course, it's only _my_ feeling). On the other side, the first foreign investing countries (in Romania) are Germany and South Corea. The reason for Germany's place in an investors list is that there are still many germans living in Romania, and Germany tries to avoid problems it would encounter if all those people would try to move over to Germany. On the other hand, may germans that lived before 1989 )that's the year we got rid of comunism - only officially, unofficially it happened in 1996) come now back and put their money in romanian business. I figure Corea is such an important investor because they did't get any other opportunity to enter to the european investment market.
Many people are putting their money into banks, were they get only some percent benefit a year. I don't know why, but in Romania it is still possible to make that profitable business that you can double your money at least every year, without doing anything unlawfull. So why don't investors come to Romania? What is the reason of their lack of confidence in doing business in Romania? Besides, i think it's a problem concerning other eastern european countries too.
-- Jurcovici Florin mailto:fljurcovici@mb.sorostm.ro