Head of the Accounts Chamber, the former Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin during the Gaidar Forum assessed the role of the state in the Russian economy. His words reports the correspondent “Renta.ru.”
“The share of the state in the economy today is a restraining economic growth factor. This does not give expanses to the most entrepreneurial opportunities, the rapid switching of demand for better products, or the private sector products can not always freely compete on the market, because some sectors and niches are busy state companies, “Kudrin said.
According to him, state companies in Russia, as a rule, have more preferences and access to public resources, as well as to participate in the public order.
“In this sense, I believe that, of course, the share of the state is redundant. It is necessary to return to this. Now in the period of crises, of course, the state influence is very high, and I do not want to part with these levers that allow you to quickly Mobilize resources, “said the head of the Accounts Chamber.
The high proportion of the state in the economy currently he considers the “objective process”, but it is confident that one of the main challenges that the country faces is to “raise entrepreneurial culture.” “As part of the public sector, it is practically impossible to do this,” Kudrin concluded.