Enterprise Survey 2009
Syrian Arab Republic, 2009
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Syria-2009--full
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interviewer's comments 1 (a16a)
Data file: Syria-2009--full data-
Overview
Valid:
277
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Start:
1778
End:
1845
Width:
68
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| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| (-8) for any financial info | |
| 40% of the company employees are illiterate | |
| 9% of the company's employees are handicapped | |
| A crucial need for market access information | |
| Accentuated bureaucracy in the judicial system | |
| Access to EU market is difficult (inadequate product standard) | |
| Access to internet connection lines is difficult | |
| Administration corruption, ignorance of gov. employees and | |
| Airport Customs are more efficient than port customs | |
| All Taxes must be unified (in one single tax) | |
| All numbers were giving in $ & transferred to Syrian pond | |
| American economic sanction on Syria were a major obstacle | |
| Anti Monopoly & competition laws must be enforced by Tax admin | |
| Application of the law derails from its original intention | |
| Availability of land & water in Syria | |
| Avoids judicial system services to settle disputes & | |
| Bad infrastructure & high level of corruption | |
| Bad internet connection | |
| Bad tax system | |
| Banking requirements are a burden | |
| Banking services should tailor-made to some needs | |
| Between cancellation of an old license and in the process of getting | |
| Big considerations must be taken to move to the industrial city | |
| Biggest problem is corruption | |
| Billing foreign companies is difficult | |
| Business License is difficult to obtain, Laws must be clear | |
| Business is very very bad, the more we work | |
| Chamber of industry is active for personal interests | |
| Chinese competition based on low cost affected his performance | |
| Chinese imports needs regulation | |
| Close family members are not included in social security | |
| Collaborative interviewee with exact answers | |
| Communications are bad, internet is slow and expensive | |
| Company affected by the opening of the market& the free | |
| Company suffers from import legislations | |
| Competition with public sector is important | |
| Conservative attitude & provision of estimate figures | |
| Constraints from public sector mainly | |
| Construction permits are delayed by engineers syndicate & high | |
| Contracting system of employees is not efficient | |
| Cooperative interviewee | |
| Cooperative interviewee however provided | |
| Copyrights are hard to get | |
| Corrupted judicial system | |
| Corruption & Inflation are constraints for investments | |
| Corruption & judicial system& sector regulations are the | |
| Corruption &lack of trust between gov. & private sector | |
| Corruption in the judicial system is an obstacle | |
| Corruption is a big obstacle | |
| Corruption is high at customs clearance | |
| Corruption is part of everyday's life | |
| Customs Fees guidelines are applied | |
| Customs are corrupt | |
| Customs system is not suitable for local industry development | |
| Delay in adsl line services | |
| Difference between the compensation in q84 and q76b | |
| Different monitoring of goods from different origins | |
| Difficult access to electricity and land | |
| Difficult access to finance | |
| Difficult obtainment of construction permit in non-industrial zones | |
| Dishonest interviewee | |
| Economic obstacles are mainly the sanctions on Syria | |
| Electricity & administrative corruption are major obstacles | |
| Electricity & diesel prices are high | |
| Electricity corruption & abuse exists | |
| Electricity in Syria is very cheap | |
| Electricity in an obstacle | |
| Electricity is a major constraint on doing business | |
| Electricity is a major obstacle (catastrophic) | |
| Electricity services & power supply are major obstacles | |
| Employees' productivity is affected by the general | |
| Exchange rate between SYP & USD | |
| Expensive access to land in non-industrial areas | |
| Export limitation by gov. is a major constraint | |
| Export promotion of the Syrian product in regional | |
| Exports need support | |
| Facing big problems because of custom laws changes | |
| Fierce competition from Chinese products | |
| Figures provided by interviewee were illogical: q84 | |
| Fluctuating electricity voltage incur losses | |
| Frequent power outages & slow internet affect daily operations | |
| Good emerging of Islamic banking | |
| Good overall investment climate compared to EU | |
| Good tax administration within 2 last years | |
| Goods are released upon informal payments | |
| Gov staff must be more informed and more efficient | |
| HR training is needed to prepare students for labor market | |
| Hard to export with Chinese competition | |
| He claims that he must pay tax even if he doesn't have profit | |
| He refused to answer Q84 --> Q86 | |
| Helpful & cooperative interviewee | |
| Helpful interviewee however inaccurate data | |
| High Telecommunication costs | |
| High constraints on exports | |
| High electricity overheads | |
| High import fees are an obstacle | |
| High overheads affected our export performance | |
| High rate of job rotation and corruption are major obstacles | |
| High taxes | |
| Highly cooperative interviewee | |
| His allocation of qualified human resources is a major | |
| Illegal competition is a big obstacle | |
| Imitation & monopoly are major obstacles | |
| Import of raw material is troublesome | |
| Import on ready made garments must be regulated | |
| Import/export regulations & US sanctions on Syria | |
| Importers manipulate quality & prices | |
| Improve the financial transactions & custom clearance | |
| Improving labor law and revising social security law | |
| Inaccurate figures | |
| Inaccurate figures in section M. | |
| Inaccurate productivity figures | |
| Inaccurate sales number and productivity in general | |
| Indirect imports of raw materials are cheaper than direct imports | |
| Inefficient custom clearance services | |
| Informal payments facilitate doing legal business | |
| Instability of sector regulation | |
| Interest free financing is crucial for industrialists | |
| Internet access is a major obstacle | |
| Internet connection is very slow | |
| Interviewee doesn’t have information about productivity and | |
| Interviewee emphasized that Syria is a rich investment area | |
| Interviewee focused on the access to finance problem | |
| Interviewee found some questions to be hard | |
| Interviewee gave answers that are 60% accurate | |
| Interviewee got bored and wasn't collaborative | |
| Interviewee is thinking of quitting production in Syria because of | |
| Interviewee praised investment environment: | |
| Interviewee wants a copy of the survey findings & results | |
| Interviewee was cooperative | |
| Interviewee was impressed by interviewers | |
| Interviewee was not cooperative | |
| Interviewee was very cooperative | |
| Interviewers met two different senior managers | |
| Investment constraints: corruption, informal payments, general | |
| Investment is neither encouraged nor supported in Syria | |
| It's impossible to have a license in agricultural areas | |
| Job rotation rate is a high 100% because the firm is new | |
| Judicial System needs improvements | |
| Judicial system needs reform | |
| Labor decrease because of foreign imports competition, Textile | |
| Labor law protect the worker & does not protect the boss | |
| Labor laws should be changed | |
| Lack of gov. bids regarding consultancy training | |
| Lack of labor dedication encourages employer to skip social | |
| Lack of monitoring & quality control on dairy products | |
| Lack of vocational training centres | |
| Large industrial organizations require a special consideration | |
| Lattakia doesn't have a skilled working force | |
| Laws & legislations should be more adequate | |
| Laws are not properly applied | |
| Legislations regulating my sector needs reviewing | |
| Loan facility obstructed because of high interest rates | |
| Local competition and high control on exports are decreasing sales | |
| Long questionnaire | |
| Looking fwd to the ICA study results | |
| Losses due to breakage & stealing are colossal | |
| Low internet connection and bad services and it's also | |
| Low internet debit | |
| Low internet debit is a major obstacle | |
| Main problems: Bureaucracy and corruption | |
| Maintenance costs are very high: 8% of revenue | |
| Major obstacles include tax administration & electricity system | |
| Manufacturing is affected by high overheads, poor infrastructure | |
| Most severe problems occur when dealing with public sectors | |
| National security office is a big obstacle in customs | |
| New Labor law must be revised | |
| No access to water & telecommunications services | |
| No concrete tax rewards perceived by the business community | |
| No financial figures were provided | |
| No industrial support | |
| No internet service at the industrial zone (Seikh Najjar) | |
| No productivity figures were provided | |
| No proper law documentation in Syria (personal opinion) | |
| No public water supply and slow internet connection | |
| No such problems as theft in Syria | |
| No transparency in financial information | |
| No water supplies or internet connection at location | |
| Non cooperative interviewee | |
| Obstacles in Syria now exceed incentives | |
| Obstacles investment law#10 requirement to exchange & sell | |
| Obstacles on media & TV production are high | |
| Obstacles: Uncultured & unqualified labor (tax) | |
| Old judicial system & outdated methods | |
| Outdated transport laws cause problems with cargo offices | |
| Political and economic stability is crucial for investments | |
| Poor electricity infrastructure | |
| Poor internet related services | |
| Poor investment incentives in Syria | |
| Poor law enforcement is major constraint | |
| Poor purchasing power | |
| Poor resolution of trade disputes. Electricity outage & dephasage | |
| Positive contribution | |
| Power abuse of tax supervisor | |
| Power outage &fluctuating voltage inccur an | |
| Power outage cause a big problem | |
| Power outages incur losses | |
| Preferred fixed tax rate rather than the current rate | |
| Price fluctuation, economic stagnation & foreign competition | |
| Problem solving is problematic in Syria | |
| Problems are in communication, sewage system, and custom clearance | |
| Property acquisition laws for Arab nationals are | |
| Q33: copper prices fluctuate according to the stock | |
| Q76a the employee number 12 is the owner | |
| Q84 figure wasn't realistic and show loss of about | |
| Reduce customs fees on raw materials imports | |
| Reduction in custom fees, electricity & income tax | |
| Ref to q70a: 9: Because he has a personal loan | |
| Regulations complicate instead of facilitating the development | |
| Renovating a product line is costly | |
| Renting land in the Fairground is very expensive | |
| Rounding up in tax rates is an obstacle | |
| Severe difficulty in access to finance | |
| Slow internet & illegal competition | |
| Slow internet is a big obstacle | |
| Social security is a burden on the employee as it is deducted | |
| Social security is good & well studied | |
| Some workers don't get fixed pays so 76a is very accurate | |
| Strong will to jointly formulate laws & regulations | |
| Successful interview | |
| Support the infrastructure of the tourism sector | |
| Syria doesn’t have e-commerce. Companies online are fictitious | |
| Syria isn't a very good climate for investments because of | |
| Syria lacks a vigorous & dynamic service sector | |
| Syrian coasts are touristic areas, so | |
| Syrian market is not competitive internationally | |
| Tax admin, judical system, customs, services and labours law | |
| Tax administered on revenue for the T&T sector is an | |
| Taxes are high and useless | |
| Technology banning is a major obstacle and removing it will | |
| Telecommunication & Electricity are major obstacles. | |
| Telecommunication services, access to qualified labor | |
| Temporary access to land is a constraint | |
| The advertising industry in Lattakia is in a bad state & if it | |
| The company is an informal sector case | |
| The contracted custom clearance office pays | |
| The customs clearance process incurs heavy losses | |
| The export system must be controlled by strict laws | |
| The high RER is hindering Syrian exports | |
| The instability of electricity is causing problems for after | |
| The main problem with the tourism sector is | |
| The overwhelming change in custom regulation | |
| The regulations have to protect the private company from | |
| The spreading of the corruption is overwhelming. | |
| The variety of tax types is an obstacle | |
| Theft occurs in customs | |
| There are no vocational training centres | |
| There is a desire to reform but actual implementation | |
| There is no monitoring on exports | |
| There should be a production zone in Syria | |
| Transportation between Homs city & Hassia industrial area | |
| Transportation costs to the industrial city are high | |
| Unfair & illegal competition is a major obstacle | |
| Unfair Chinese competition with low price & low quality | |
| Unfair competition in raw materials import | |
| Unfair competition is a major obstacle affecting industry | |
| Unfair tax rates for transportation projects | |
| Unpredictability of laws & regulation is a major constraint | |
| Unqualified HR | |
| Unskilled committee for price fixing | |
| Unskilled gov. staff | |
| Unstable regulations & inexperienced labor | |
| Very high interest rate impossible achievable profit | |
| Very negative interviewee | |
| Vocational training centres need rehabilitation | |
| Waste management is an obstacle | |
| We are used to corruption | |
| Weak internet debit | |
| Women are more reliable as they are loyal & meticulous |
Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.