Yesterday, Moscow reported on the next weekly doubling of the trade turnover, services and return to the absolute figures for these sectors to pre-crisis levels.
the Vice-the mayor Vladimir Yefimov, in the area of responsibility of which lies the city’s economy and that since the crisis began is also involved in business support, said that the total turnover of trade and service businesses during the second week of June reached 24.5 billion rubles. – it is 98% of the level of business activity before the pandemic.
what do these numbers on the background of storming summer terraces of Moscow? The economic Apocalypse, which is feared by all, from economists to Housewives, all the same did not happen? Or is it a temporary surge in consumer spending, the growth of the famous “red lipstick index”?
Vice-President of Moscow chamber of Commerce Suren Vardanyan believes that positive momentum in the economic recovery of the city, which we are witnessing now – the merit of the business, which at the critical moment and sat down at the negotiating table with the Moscow authorities and was able to bring key business needs in a crisis.
due to the fact that the government has developed measures of support of business is not in isolation from it, and on the basis of the partnership dialogue, it turned out an effective package of economic measures through which the business is now recovering in the most favourable scenario.
In an interview with the Company Suren Vardanyan stressed that taken in Moscow, the aid instruments were created with an eye to real market problems, and discussions and criticism from the business was at times quite hard.
representatives of the Moscow business community notes that in this crisis the feedback from business has been organized at Federal and Moscow levels more efficiently than ever. Vladimir Yefimov, who led in March specially created in the Moscow government anti-crisis headquarters economy, introduced a very simple and working algorithm for the development of anti-crisis measures. The essence of this approach is to define together with business the most problematic points and to develop solutions in collaborative dialogue and to implement them immediately, and immediately analyze feedback.
“the Experts check the work of the proposed support measures in practice, whether the subsidy recovery specialists. This allowed not to throw money to the wind. The city government worked quickly, creating a system to receive, analyze information and prepare proposals,” – said the President of MCCI.
the Most popular in Moscow support measures Suren Vardanyan considers the support on rent payments, salaries to employees, subsidizing participation in the export programs of tax breaks. These measures help not only��about to experience a momentary shock, but also to give the opportunity to rebuild the business under the new realities.
However, the main lesson of the pandemic, he believes qualitative change in the relations of government and business. Equal partnership and open dialogue in resolving the economic problems that have developed during operation of the Moscow anti-crisis headquarters, may in the future become the basis of economic immunity of the city.
“the Government has learned of openness, he says. Discussion of the problems walked in a living dialogue, feedback on online venues. This crisis has restored the element of open communication between government and business. Here a significant role was played by enterprises of business which have helped business and government to structure the problems and opportunities out of the crisis”.
Demonstrating its effectiveness complex capital measures have already been called “Moscow’s anti-crisis package” and the international consulting company “Ernst & Young” conducted a study of the support measures in the capitals of leading countries of the world. On the basis of which concluded that his 85-billion comprehensive package of measures Moscow has bypassed all the world’s major metropolises, some of which did not feel the need to support business-level city, and was limited to only Federal measures.
