Following the motto “Your success begins with your idea,” the Student Entrepreneurship project being implemented by the Center for Research and Studies GEA with support from USAID, is entering its third consecutive year.
The economic recession in recent years has had a devastating impact on young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with youth unemployment increasing two to three times more than the overall unemployment rate. A new GEA study explores possible solutions to this problem.
It is well-known that B&H’s 40% “tax wedge” – the amount of taxes and contributions on income – is relatively high when compared with that many countries. This means that for every 100 BAM that an employer pays for one registered worker, only 60 BAM goes to the worker.
The announcement by the Government of the Republic of Srpska on introducing tax-exempt wage portion of 200 BAM is surely a welcome measure…
The suggested Draft Budget of the city of Banja Luka for 2014 reveals major budget expenditure problems.
Analysis of progress implementing the RS 2011-2015 Employment Strategy.
Organized by the Open Society Think Tank Fund with Open Society Fund Prague and Google, an interactive workshop was organized aimed at enabling more effective use of data in policy-relevant research and advocacy. The workshop took place in Prague on November 7 and 8, 2013.
With the motto “Young AND successful, who dares say it can’t be?”, the second Youth Business Forum took place on October 29 and 30 2013 in Mostar.
Organized by the network of think tank organizations PASOS (Policy Association for an Open Society), the annual assembly of the association was held in Brussels on October 17-18, 2013.
On September 5 2013, in the municipality of Drinic (BA), village Bara, “Lunch in a buckwheat field” was held in order to present a successful business enterprise realized with the support of the project “Student Entrepreneurship”.