International conference on the reform of property in Azerbaijan
State Committee for Property Affairs will hold the 3rd of May in Baku scientific-practical conference on the reform in the area of ??property rights in Azerbaijan, which is timed to the 90th anniversary of the birth of former President Heydar Aliyev.
After coming to power Heydar Aliyev in 1993, the country has implemented reforms in the agricultural sector and the privatization of property. Independent experts believe that the reforms did not contribute to the formation of the country's middle class, but only led to a deepening of the stratification of society into rich and poor.
SCP press office reports that the purpose of the conference is to discuss the social and economic aspects of the role of property reform in the country on the formation of free enterprise and the market economy.
Analysis occurring in the period from 2006, that is, large-scale use of oil revenues shows that from that time began attacks on private property under the guise of public use. According to the reports of independent NGOs, the property owners were destroyed overnight, without any warning to the implementation of various infrastructure projects and more. The proposed compensation was not adequate to their market value. Recorded were dozens of facts raider seizure of property and expropriation under pressure using the security forces. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of citizens are still unable to make ownership of individual houses for lack of formal approvals.
Note that in the 1996-1998's was carried out land reform, which resulted in over 23% of the land fund of the country passed into private ownership. Since 2006, there has been implemented a program of privatization. There were privatized more than 42 thousand small enterprises and projects, joint-stock company of about 1600 companies. The government claims that as a result of privatization owners were half a million citizens. However, analysis shows that as a result of privatization of small and large property shares and shares received no more than 150 thousand citizens. Small objects privatized mainly by one person. During privatization, corporations of nationals were able to acquire more than 10% of the shares. - 08B-
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