| Question: [q51] Observations | Observations |
| Response | Number | Percent |
| La vie est bien garantie mais l'unique probleme taxes nous amruille beaucoup ou est le goouvernment congolais? Ou va ce taxe? Malgre sela la capacite montreque il y a beaucoup de revenues sur le travailler nous dire que ces beau. | Is the life well guaranteed but the single problem taxes amruille much or is gouvernment Congolese for us? Or this tax goes? In spite of it capacity is shown that there is much of returned on working it to say to us that these beautiful.
| 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should do all the necessary things to improve the economy by involving everyone in the management of public funds. This will be carried out by paying decent salary to employees to be able to afford to buy goods. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Government should look into how to reduce taxes and reinforce security. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The problem encountered everywhere is first the electricityand then taxes and security. People in charge call for the government to intervene in these problems, but they evolve well. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I would ask that the government maintains price stability in the market | 1 | 0.216 % |
| It is not ideal to have a business in an area where you are known. There are a lot of head aches. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We would like the government to sort out problems of infrastructure | 1 | 0.216 % |
| It would be better if the government assumes its responsability in order to regulate market prices | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We would like our clients to be able to trust us in running my business | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I wish that they create local industries that transform medical products | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We would wish that suppliers are able to sell products on a long-term basis | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The blame is often due to electricity, I would like to have my own generating set to overcome these situations | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We would like that Bralima creates a variety of products to satisfy the demand | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We would the government to stabilise the currency and the prices in the market by increasing the infrastructure | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Everything should have a fixed price nationally which is the reason why we are asking the government to regulate the prices whilst stabilizing local currency | 1 | 0.216 % |
| That the NGO give us financial help to relaunch our economy | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Electricity problem does not help the increase of our economy, where the SNL should assume its reponsabilities | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I would wish to have equipments to see if I could improve the working conditions | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I would ask the government to reduce taxes and the suppliers to be swift in order to deliver at the right time | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I would like Bralima to produce the requested products in a useful time | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Life is well garanteed but the unique tax problem confuses us. Where is the government ? Where does the tax go ? | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Here in our place we won't find good articles, the house functions badly. Despite this, where we are we find something. We are hopeful that we'll make arrangements to have a house in good state. And we hope that the Congolese government is going to help us the business people of Bukavu to prosper in the business | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should subsidise our businesses to permit us to be honest in our business transactions | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Everyone has the duty to like his country and he must do anything to help it go forward. To develop economically. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Our country's economy has improve compared to last year, the Government is working and I am convinced that the economy will be restored in a short time | 1 | 0.216 % |
| It would be better if Bralima could reorganise its trading politics | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Government must control the exchange rate in the market and regulate prices | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The SNEL must renovate its infrastructure in order to allow us get customers | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The creation of Pilot schools for creating technicians able to repair their material and use high tech products | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Already must intervene in order to stabilise the price of food. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The population must be sensibilised in order to give them the taste of modern medicine instead of relying on charlatants (Traditional medicine) | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government to stabilise the exchange rate in order to avoid disputes from our customers.
The suppliers to make available a permanent distribution centre and maintains the services in order to avoid time loss | 1 | 0.216 % |
| There must be good improvement of server connection from our supplier and permanent electricity which should be undertaken by the SNEL. The public must be attracted through marketing by informing available packages in public media. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We want the stability price stability in the market and that the water board give us water to avoid water-borne diseases | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The currency of the RDC loses its value day after day. The Government should relaunch the economy of the country by stabilising the currency in the market. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The exchange rate irritates us a lot, the Government should assume its responsibility and reduce taxes because they always take nearly everything that we earn | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If the exchange rate was stable then the economy of the area would have been better | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We want a stable electricity supply and the Government to create public sewing workshops | 1 | 0.216 % |
| There must be an intervention from the Government in order to stabilise the economy (control the inflationand construct the infrastructure). And also an intervention from the private sector to promote their enrichment with the aim of bringing prosperity to nationals and also foreigners in the country | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Government must control prices in the market and the SNL must renovate its infrastructures | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Government must stabilise the exchange rate, review and regulate the taxation system. The SNEL must stabilise the electricity for good preservation of products | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Let's hope that there will be an evolution in the coming years, if the Government assumes its responsibilities and everyone reasons to relaunch the economy. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We need a change in mentality to increase the economy and improve the infrastructures by the Government | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Government must create jobs so that the economy improves for everyone to be able to have a cup of tea. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We need to have our own medicine factory here, we don't need to import our medicines from Asia where we have potential here. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| there should be awareness of everything and by everyone, and the state should fixe the prices in the market. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| we want to have permanent foodstuffs in the market, and that Regideso provides us water continually | 1 | 0.216 % |
| the governement should promote agricultural production locally instead of importing all agricultural products from Rwanda. Our land is fertile and we have lacs, and land for animal farming as well. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| lack of public transport to promote the transportation of commercial produces. Also prices are unstable in the market | 1 | 0.216 % |
| economies will not improve if the governement fails to take responsibiliy of stabilise prices in the market | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Bralima plays with prices because the government is not interested in and because of the lack of competition in the market | 1 | 0.216 % |
| if we could reduce fraudes and piracy of medicines then we would be better off. also regular and improved sanitary infrastructures. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Infrastructures must be improved to promote the relunch of the economy especially we want the government to give credit to businesses. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| there must be electricity, water and infrastructures that allows smooth flow of economic activity while reducing street children | 1 | 0.216 % |
| it would be better if the government regulated the competition. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I hope that the goverment stabilise exchange rate in the market | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I wish I had means to enlarge my the business | 1 | 0.216 % |
| it would be a good idea if association of sellers would be created for mutual support. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| the situation will improve from now on, I am confident that, with our president who does everything in his power to bring us investers from China and Europe. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I would like to modernise my business to attract more customers | 1 | 0.216 % |
| due to bad location I cannot realise the desired profit. consequently, I am planning to change location. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I'd like that BRalima review its commercial policy to reduce the impact of the above mentioned difficulties. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| we wish that bralima be dependable in delivering its products. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I'd like to have a restaurant of high level to be able to improve takings. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I will demande that prices of items and quantities in stock must be respected. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I whish I could buy a big freezer to avoid the problems cited above. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I wish that lenders keep in mind the level of business | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I demande the government to reeducate street children to advance businesses. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I whish state could control the military so that they annoyed businesses less. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I'd like to increase my business turnover but unfortunately because of lack of means it is impossible. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I'd like that people of good faith can help me improve my business | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I'd like to see the goverment controlling the wholesalers and importers of fuels and fix selling price. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I have small profit because my stock hardly sells. This is because in Bagira there is less construction work going on. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| a lot of sellers display their merchandises along the road which can accidents and deaths | 1 | 0.216 % |
| as a seller of goats we help loads of people who are celebrating such as mariages, but unfortunately because of insecurity in the our village we import goats. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| prices are high because of scarcity of merchandise in the market. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| after these investigations authorities must manage or control the market because choes or slippers' sellers are all over the place and along the road. This is the consequence of lack of appropriate revenues. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Bralima society must help us to regulate prices because price of fish are varied in the city. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| These questions allows you to have a general idea about the target population, but ask you're bosses to publish the results in the radio for the interests of south-Kivu population. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| jewellery is appreciated but people should be careful about the fraud. authorities should help us to do our work. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We have to have favourable place to carry our work. School materials are needed all the year to supply children properly and we cried for your help and the help of authorities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| we want custom duties reduced to allow us to access merchandises, otherwise prices will be high and its your responsibility to report that to authorities and your bosses. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| - authorities should control pharmaceutical products and people who don't have any idea of how to treat.
- make water and electricity available to preserve certain pharmaceuticals.
- That government fund people with good initiatives | 1 | 0.216 % |
| agents should be payed properly otherwise nothing will function properly. prices also must be stabilised and only be increased proportionally to population income | 1 | 0.216 % |
| security | 1 | 0.216 % |
| - promoting the smooth flow of businesses
- help sellers in funding
- high transport costs is overwhelming our businesses | 1 | 0.216 % |
| controlling suppliers and restoring roads. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| unform price must be established
improving infrastructure so that transport is better. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| it is bad if situation don't improve in the future | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We need all doors open to us so to be able to access the products quickly with lower taxes. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| authorities makes it difficult as they demande exhorbitant taxes. Tell authorities to leave us alone so that we can take care of our families. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| owners of shops don't have to increase prices. competent authorities should do their job. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| security should improve and government should involve in solving small conflicts by the means of chief districts. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| job creation and employment to reduce the number of sellers. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| collaboration between the government and PMEA | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If only the government know about the environment and improve infrastructures. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| stopping the competion | 1 | 0.216 % |
| - solving electricity problems
- improving infrastructures (roads) | 1 | 0.216 % |
| - reinforcing security
- improving transport
- reducing taxes by the importers of beauty products
- the state should fix the exchange and pay their agents to improve money circulation | 1 | 0.216 % |
| educating population and help to leave tribalism.
reducing taxes and improving transport system to enable easy access to merchandises. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| There must be exemption from taxes for starters.
infrastructures and custom duties increase the prices of products. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should know that not all sellers are satisfied with their job. Only lack of appropriate employment push them to that. Country should be rebuilt because all sectors are important for businesses. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| the state should pay their agents because making business became the only source of survival even for agents.
also taxes should be revised because we can't see who they serve. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state should pay their agents properly and create jobs for the business to prosper.
roads must be repaired for easy transport.
taxes must be reduced to encourage entrepreneurship. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Bralima must make an arrangement to supply all the products, they must increase their staff. A lot of people consume products from Bralima but they face lack of certain products. They must also give this report to their regional leaders. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We are asking the reduction in price and that the authority fixes the prices in the wholesalers shop where we buy the merchandise. Your pollsters tell the government and you ( People who are carrying out the survey) of their findings. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The price of petrol is not stable and that's why there is variation in the price of the public transport | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The access to internal information of businesses is difficult and in that sense the reponsible refuse to give the turnover of his enterprise. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Things could get better if the government becomes serious. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Business is going well and can develop if the government becomes serious by emphasising the taxes that have to be payed | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The access to certain information was not possible because the reponsible seem to have his own vision about us which could affact his business | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Lack of customers, tax problems, means of transportand insecurity are often the different types of difficulties that we encounter in our line of business. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Sanction must be taken against the thieves. Tax problem is the cause for the bad state of business activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We could progress well in our business activity if the Government reduces the tax and that the transport is efficient. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If the Government continues to intervene in our business activity and the traders assume their responsibility, I assume that there will be an improvement in the business activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Government should put its effort so that the problems of taxes, insecurity and theft are solved. The lack of electricity in this area is also the cause for the bad state of business activity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| stability of exchange rates and tax stability.
restoring the infrastructures | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Health inspection should advise to store medicine properly to fight against diseases. It is not good that illiterate are able to work in chemist even if he did not prepare the prescribtion. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Even the currency is not stable, the Government should regulate the exchange rate by creating specialised houses in the subject. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Our Government should create industries in this country to allow us to get supplies instead of getting them from outside and this would improve more the economy. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I am sorry for the Government, because it's the only Government who discourages private initiatives with the aim to improve our living conditions, it's a Government of practical jokers. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The economy is improving slowly and I am certain that it will keep getting better further year after year and we'll get to a considerable position. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| No major problem except the exaggerated Government tax. No access to certain information. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Everything is going well except the hassles of several Government services. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The level of education of the responsible makes it that we finds difficulties to access informations regarding the revenue and the turnover of the enterprise. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The questionnaires in this suvey are not adapted to our level. The questionnaire should be carried out in local language, preferably swahili. We would like this to be done in our favour. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should support us so that we get supplies at a good price through the different fish market and above all that they improve the infrastructures. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Chemist grow like mushrooms and the owners have no knowledge of health. The display of medicine along the road disrupts work. The authorities should follow up these chemists. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Government should help us to improve our socio-economic situation of our household. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Anyone who is not a foreign exchange trader should not exchange any currency to avoid theft and to say later that they were foreign exchange traders only. After this survey, that the authorities give us a place for the exchange. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The problem is that its a periodic job but we need an appropriate place for the sale of these products. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| - Government should create jobs. At the moment there are lot of people doing business because of lack of employment.
- Government should also put in place a stable and uniform price for products.
- Bad roads also render the transportation fees high. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| That your survey results reach the authorities to fight against illegal taxes and to the network sponsors to see how to reduce prices in order to recuperate customers. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| taxes reduction and restoring security | 1 | 0.216 % |
| suppliers should make their products more accessible.
government should protect suppliers so that they can become more interested in their work | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Authorities should all they can to stablise price of products.
Infrastructures should be improved to facilitate the transport. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| there is inequality in rent payments that should be looked at.
problems of lots of chemists in one area | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Bralima shouldn't be charging us to take back broken bottles and they should also recognise that also supplied some broken bottles that they refuse to take back. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We need permanent provision of electricity | 1 | 0.216 % |
| there must be review of general policy because things are just deteriorating. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Our government know how to take taxes but not how to build the country.
They must also create jobs for the unemployed who are all starting doing business. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| - tax review
- they should give more to restaurent services so we can improve infrastructures and places.
- they should also make sure that prices of foodstuffs is sensible so that people can afford.
- they have to create jobs for the unemployed, and pay their agents properly because they eat first and then always bargain for afterwards. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| government should reduces taxes, or they should pay their employees properly and create jobs.
transport is costly because of the bad state of roads and high fuel prices. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| number of sellers must be reduced by creating other jobs.
road and service improvement are needed.
permanent supply of electricity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| the government should review its general policy. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| state should rebuild the country because there is devastation everywhere. No employment, no salaries and lot of taxes | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If the government help financially those who starting business that would have reduced the delinquency. also roads must restored. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| state should know that high taxes is affecting businesses badly. There is no money and high taxes is helping.
Government should promote importations and multiple suppliers and control prices in order to make products affordable for the population. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We need help from both the state and foreign agencies to stabilise prices and improve economy. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If S.N.L provides electricity regularly our customers will increase as they come to charge their phones. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| put end to taxes increases | 1 | 0.216 % |
| it is desirable that we create association of pharmaceutical products businesses. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I'd like to be able to have a studio equipped with modern materials. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| the government should review its fiscal services. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| we hope that government respond to problems of unstability of prices. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We work hard but the government causes a lot of problems with their taxes. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If economic activity evolves at tortoise speed it is because of our authorities irresponsibility, the rash authorities whose only concern is their private interests. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government must involve everyone in the development of public things by giving them a reasonable and regular wage so that they can survive from day to day and fulfill their civic obligations. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government cannot do much about economic activity by itself, each person must make a contribution to make it effective. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The taxes imposed are too much, the government must reduce them, if not they are stealing our money. It is truely deplorable. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government is the motor of everything that happens in this country, they should organise the economic situation by reducing taxes and other harrasments. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The shop shows that it's true that it safeguards life *livelihood?* because there really are most of parents needs there (petrol, matches, candles, eggs...), there is the good will of the clients. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We truely never stop talking about tax, you see, with an increase of 40 dollars which costs a family and everyone at least 80 Fc, as a tax it is really too much, we call on the government to intervene. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Always the government for security and tax, above all at the level of the ESS - MJV, biut we develop even so. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| With a business figure of $150 for a shop one can't see how the government can tax excessively while people are still looking for themselves on the market and have to have government support so that their businesses improve. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Although paying tax is a duty of all merchants, it is also necessary that the state secures people's well being so that they have the possibility of fulfilling their duty. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Above all the problems encountered are: electricity, taxes, security... Those responsable always call on the government to intervene in these problems but they develop well. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government cannot do much by itself, it is as much a challenge for everyone, everyone must do something so that their country can eventually progress. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The transport sector is very badly organised in this country, if the government could make a reliable aviation company one would not have all these problems in the economy of this country. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| With sum of $500 one can safeguard a whole family's livelihood well, but even so the excessive taxes mean that the sum changes in proportion to the family's consumption. We demand that the Congolese state intervenes in this problem; in other respects things work. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The main problems encountered primarily are: electicity, tax, security... Those responsable call on the government to intervene in these problems, but they develop very very well. Thank you. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The shop shows that it is true that it safeguards a livelihood because there are truely most of the things that parents need (petrol, matches, candles, eggs...). Thank you. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government gives everyone a chance to enrich themselves, to practice economic activity in certain conditions in order that everyone also helps the government, by paying taxes, respecting laws that organise business (the economy) in the country. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Here with us, we don't find good merchandise, the house is in very bad condition and doesn't work well, despite the condition of the house we get clients.
We hope that the we are going to sort out getting the house in good condition and we think that the Congolese State will have the provincial government help us, the merchants of the town of Bukavu, to develop our sector well in the near future.
Thank you. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Our government should make investments and improve the infrastructure to put the merchants in better working conditions. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Our government must give us funds and reduce the harrassment of money to encourage us to do better in our economic activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The economy of our country can be improved if we, the merchants, work hand in hand with our government. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I am sure that our country is in the process of improving itself bit by bit. The economy of our country is going to stabilise in four years and we will have the responsibility to invest. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The authorities are irresponsible, they look after their own selfish interests, they don't do work as is it should be done, in this situaiton the economy continues to fall. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| On can develop if there is not too much borrowing and if security stays stable. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The merchants must be kind to their customers by selling their merchandise at good prices. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Fewer customers because there are too many shops. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| So many customers but the only problem is security, which often discourages me. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The reduction of taxes can make it easier for us to improve our activities better. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Our economic activities can develop well if our customers have the good-will to pay their debts. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government must make lots of effort to strengthen security in our country, in order that economic activity increases in our sector. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| An increase in customers as well enough water and electricity c0uld help our activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| With customers economic activity can take place in a good environment but without customers that activity is very reduced. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| By God's grace and with state intervention, we cannot forget to mention the customers, our economic activity can relieve our country of much. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| When I had asked the manager of the canteen the questions, he indicated that everything works well but the only problems are the exchange rate, tax, security and electricity. The canteen show that it is true that one can earn a living because there are really most things that parents need (petrol, matches, candles, eggs...). | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Not only are taxes and the rent too high, the Bralima disciminate amongst their clients and all this makes life difficult. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The electricity leads to stealing *or the electricity cuts out* above all during the evening, the taxes too, like all big problems we can only appeal to the government. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If economy activity continues to funtion today it is thanks to the state. But we beg them to continue to make their efforts to improve extensively. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should impose set prices for all merchandise to avoid the problem of high prices in some circumstances. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| It is the government who must impose reasonable prices for a better yeild and better harmony in economic activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government must reduce its harassment and help us to obtain a profit or substantial result. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We are still waiting for help from our government to motivate us to do better for the interests of everyone, so that economic activity is integrated in the lives of all Congolese. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Everywhere in the world the government gives itself completely to the economy, it intervenes to improve working conditions. Our government must also be like other governments who actively particpate in the economy by controlling merchants. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We never manage to have a profit because the government asks for too many taxes, we are incapable of investing and modernising our activities because of the state in our respective activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I am convinced that our government will take everything in hand, above all economic activities which are the motor of development, and in this case the government will give funds, will control and will impose prices on those concerned and there should be progress in all sectors of life. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We ask out suppliers, the Bralima, to improve working conditions, the Bralima must change the bottles which are in a bad condition. They must also lower the prices of baskets. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The taxes are high and we often notice certain necessary produts are unavailable and this makes the fact that our job develops even more of a marvel than before, but even so it is a good job despite all the harassments observed in recent times. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The monopoly of the market means that the products are often inferior to those requested and it is because of these problems that products are missing. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The taxes are high, and without mentioning the instability of the exchange rate which we notice every day. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state has the task of organising its economic sector by reducing taxes and changing that which must be changed. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should allocate us funds to enable us to work in conditions which are more or less ok. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Too many taxes kill the economy, the government must reduce taxes and harassments, it must help us to acheive a positive and significant profit in our activities to enable us to invest. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If taxation is regulated acording to the capacity of each house, if the big economic operators can provide us with products here in the country; they will enable us to make the country earn, ourselves and the same big operators. But unfortunately our country does not have that policy of development. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| So that one can put an end to the deficiency the Bralima should increase production. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| For self-sufficiency the government must create industries in each province at least. Reduce taxes and we certainly have the potential to secure ourselves, one cannot do anything without security. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Without a salary nothing can work so the government should pay agents so that purchase can be better.
Taxes must be managed and put to the profit of the popultation.
The sale of fraudulent products must be banned by the government.
The non pharmacists selling medicine must be punished/given official training *2 meanings*. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The govenment should put things *norluc?* in place who will govern the "Nganda".
Police for security at night.
Those responsable should improve conditions in the work house.
The taxes of the town council and tourism are better clarified. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should pay agents.
The government could give the order that those who do not have a prescription are not received in pharmacies.
Oversee the pharmaceutical sector by giving cards of recognition. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Despite the drop in prices and the economic situation, the customers are still absent.
The government should take the pharmceutical sector into consideration by elaborating the rules for being a pharmacist. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should take on all of their responsibilities, they must control merchants activities to avoid fraud, high prices, dishonesty... | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government must do everything possible to distribute electricity to each inhabitant. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Reinforce security rather than pay civil servants.
Criminals should be punished, as should those who misappropriate public funds and all wrong-doers.
Supply of water and electricity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state should learn to create jobs so that capital is raised and also it should punish theives severely. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Government must get the economical decree.
The Government must create employments and balanced pay for everyone. They must also reduce taxes and improve the working conditions and security. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I do not see the future of our economy since the Government does not show any sign of change for the future. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Despite the deplorable economical situation in our country, we must work together with the Government to improve business activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The situation is improving at a small pace, maybe the future will be better than the present. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I am an optimist that the economic situation will change one day. Our government is self searching. I wish all the good lucks to the ministries in their approaches. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I love this country but if one thing is true, we lack leaders to organise the economy. I am certain that one day we wiil be balanced in our economy. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The capacity shows that there are a lot of revenue on the employee. We should say more that the provincial Government should intervenes in the tax problem, electricity and the economy. Otherwise the problems that we have had will finish off the business in Bukavu unless it is improved. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The problem encountered by all is ; the electricity, taxes, security, ....
People in charge call the government to intervene. But the shop owner shows he protects their lives. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I do not see any progress in the economy in the next 2 years, we should wait maybe 10 years or more so that the Government finds itself in its objectives. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If you have a business in an area where you are known, the business does not work well because a lot of people aks you help. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We have found good products, but our location even fits some things *unclear*.
We hope that that we will sort out getting the better quality goods our customers demand and we've seen that works well but the only problems are the exchange rate, tax, security and electricity.
Thank you. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The intervention of ESNEL is very important to supply us with electricity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government must make an effort to supply us with drinking water and electricity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Bralima will do everything to increase production. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| For me, the best way of organising the economy is to modernise the infrastructure. The government must improve the roads for better mobility of the elements of production. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We address problems of tax, thefts, deficiency of electricity as well as security, to the state so that they create in order in the country in general and particularly in economic activity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The capacity shows that there are lots of incomes for workers, but also we must repeat that the provincial government intervenes in the problems of tax and electricity as well as the economy.
Thank you. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Whilst paying taxes is a duty of all merchants, the state must also try to secure peoples livelihoods so that they can carry out their duties, as the shop shows that it's true we can secure a livelihood because there are most of parents needs. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The problem of the varying exchange rate sometimes holds us up. If possible, it would be better if the state could keep an eye on it. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should arrange to find work and pay workers. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The clients should have te good will to pay their debts, as the business cannot progress with a range of debts. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state must pay workers their wages so that there are lots of customers. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Reduced taxes would be important to the smooth running of things. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should regularise the relationship betwen the manager and employees.
Wages must be incresed.
Neither medical care nor transport are not promised by the manager.
"If you don't want it, someone else will completely take your place" said the boss.
Lack of government influence on business. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We find that the public phone *publiphone* agents have the intention of paying their taxes if the SNEL guarantees the availability of electricity, the absence of which drives them to avoid some taxes. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We find that the public phone agents have the intention of paying their taxes if the SNEL guarantees the availability of electricity, the absence of which drives them to avoid some taxes. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If the state does its utmost everything can work. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| It would be better if the customers were more careful not too break bottles, work could take place in a better environment. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The customers should be conscientious about paying their debts to improve our work. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should *regulate/stabalise* the mode of economic access.
The government should manage the expats (Lebanese) who put before them the under stationary shops.
The taxes should go down.
That the landlord fix prices for the better. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| It would be better if the governmentkept an eye on the price increase, particularly ofd imported merchandise, as the changes make the merchants insecure. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The capacity shows there are lots of sources of income and we hope that we can arrange to have the firm in good condition and we think that the Congolese state will also help the country and the province of South Kivu to develop well economically. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We we asked the manager of the shop questions he indicated that things work well but the only problems are exchange rate, tax, security and electricity... But their ability increases and there is lots of income. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| When the questions were posed to the manager of the pharmacy he indicated that things work well but the only problems are the exchange rate, tax, electricity, security and other problems. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| It would be better if the govenment kept an eye on the increase of prices above all of imported merchandise because changes put the merchants in an unstable situation, and the shop shows that it's true that it earns a living because there are truely most of the needs of our parents. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We notice endless powercuts as well as unjustified bills. This time our leaders must listen if we are to resolve the problems which are still making us unhappy. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| High taxes and power cuts make our job difficult even though it's a marvelous job if the country is well ordered. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state must help us to make our small income, we pay more than we earn and it is nearly impossible to develop. We try to break even but it's true to say that nothing does. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The job of a hairdresser is marvelous, I don't think that I'm the only person who would say so, I believe that all the hairdressers in the world are well aware that without us the world wouldn't be the same. But here, with us, the SNEL decourages us with badly controlled power cuts. But the job is good. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The high taxes and power cuts do not give us a good service. They do not allow us to develop. The government should help us because I like being a hairdresser so much that I hope to have the first salon in the town, maybe even the whole Republic, where conditions are well ordered. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| My job develops wonderfully and it is profitable as I bring my children up from it, send them to school and provide all the household needs possible. But the only problems that I know are rent and high taxes. My landlord likes to see lots of customers in the pharmacy and if he notices directly increases the price, that is always forced on me but in general the job develops well. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| My job develops well, but the taxes are too high and that does not encourage a good work environment. Price instability causes us problems in the market, the government should intervene so that we can develop. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| In our town we only have one pub/brewery, this is the reason that distribution is a bit difficult because sellers and consumers are numberous. The government should do everything it can to break the monopoly that makes the lives of us beer sellers difficult; but other than that selling beer is a good business even if the packaging is breakable. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| My work is good but generally there are neither negative or positive changes. The SNEL makes our lives difficult as our job depends on electricity, but the overflows and cuts hinder us a bit too much. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The prices of products on the market is instable, we ask our leaders to stabalise them. But equally to ensure the protection of our well being. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Despite the reduced price of some goods on the market, instability of the exchange rate is the biggest problem for me, our leaders must make themselves maintain a stable rate for the development of our occupations, if not we cannot work anymore. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| High prices of the products on the market and high taxes give us serious problems. The government should intervene or we will remain stuck. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We invite the state to intervene in the serious problem of electricity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Given that water is very important for life, Regideso must also make a great effort to intervene in the problem. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state should do everything it can to work out how to overcome certain barriers so that our merchandise arrirves withour fear of wasting so much more money. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should do everything it can to improve economic activity so that our country can go really far with economic activity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We need profit from economic activity. But keep count of some problems we find, notably taxes and transport problems... We tire ourselves for nothing. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| There are too many hardships. Also, reduced taxes are very necessary for economic activity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| To develop better, the problem we need to fight is copying our neighbours goods. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Plenty of water and electricity as well as reduced taxres can be the base of improving our activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The health inspection should makes sure sellers of medicines look after their medicines to fight illnesses that can to spread by badly conserved products. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government must reduce taxes because, with too many taxes, one works without a reasonable income. And also punish thieves severely so that other thieves stop stealing. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The organisation of pharmacies should protect its members against people with bad-will and permit them to sell expired merchandise *surely this refers to those with "bad-will" or be negated, but gramatically it isn't...* and against the harassment its members are victims of. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Recommendations: that the state improves the infrastructure, above all roads, so that products can be circulated.
That the organisation of pharmacists increases training and retraining in support of the pharmacists. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Congolese state should increase the buying power of its population by paying a good wage to its officials. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Conclusion: the future is promising. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state should invest effort in controlling prices above all of imported merchandise. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| As long as there's life, we must keep hope. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Congolese government should give a salary to its officals (paricularly those in public roles) in order to increase the purchasing power and improve the living conditions of its population. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should make an effort to supply us with electricity and to reduce taxes for activities to work well. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should make particularly the merchants secure and all the population in general. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| There is always hope, above all with the five building sites/projects *chantiers* put in progress by the head of state. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should provide us with electricity for the good progression of economic activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We hardly encounter any problems because we produce impeccable work, without competition, it is the reason that we don't encounter many problems. In the case that there was a problem it would not be for us to solve as our superiors deal with everything. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Being a hairdresser I've discovered, during these years in which clients are becoming numerous, that people are slightly beginning to devote themselves too much to hairdressing. It is a good thing for us the hairdressers in general and myself in particular, with it I hope to develop in the domain of hairdressing. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Personally, I really like this job at the intermediary Bralima depot because people have always been thirsty, each day they have to enjoy themselves with a glass, it's the reason that we aren't like other merchants. Take for example clothes sellers, who have to be careful that clothes are not torn or used, that's not the case for us beer sellers. I reckon that soon our job will become really serious because already we notice that people become interested in the whole town, which is a good good thing. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government has to help us because all our profit ends up with them, it is as though one works for them. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| High taxes and power cuts make work too difficult, without that we'd be great because our job, hair and beauty salon, is very profitable. When these problems are over I hope that we'll be alongside the richest men on the planet. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The monopoly of the market means that we have fewer goods for which the demand is considerable, the government should look for a solution to this problem and the problems of tax which bother us. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Taxes are high and favours are numerous, everyone calls for the state officials and they come when they want, to fleece us and to make our jobs difficult. The government should intervene to help us by reducing the favours and they should also stabalise the exchange rate. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I develop very well in my role as shop keeper as it's thanks to that job that I have married my wife and soon we'll have a child, which will have to go to school one day and I hope that with this job everything will be possible. But the instability of the exchange rate doesn't help, we always have to change the prices of good on the market and that's not good for our customers who complain endlessly. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| My job as shop keeper is developing wonderfully and I hope to emerge from here in a few years, but state officials must limit their awful favours which are ruining us, they are always numberous and in lots of units. They should help us to cut some of their favours, that would really help me. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| With the five worksites/projects of President Joseph Kabila there is hope that tomorrow will be better. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| With security, commercial activities can be even more beneficial. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Congolese government should provide security for its population so that economic activities can develop well. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We hope that with the five worksites/projects of the President of Republic commercial activities will improve and develop so that the manager will be enabled to benefit. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| With the fulfillment of the President of the Republic's five worksites/projects economic activities can work even better. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Congolese state should provide security for all of the population against rebel attacks and against harassment from the Congolese military. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Basically that's the way it is, the state must organise security for the population because one can't do anything if there's insecurity in the work environment. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I'm sorry because we don't have the necessary resourcese to improve quality of life of the population but the state says nothing, it steals the country. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I really like my job as shopkeeper, but only recently, one begins to notice remarkable increases in the price of goods on the market, sometimes they are high without us realising and that means that one looses lots instead of earning lots. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The growth in the price of products on the marker doesn't suit us anymore, it has to end, multiple taxes and that mean a decrease in our income, which means our activities don't develop anymore. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| For the development of our restaurant the government has to reduce taxes and secret favours which are not identifiable, so that it ensures the protection of our well being. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| These numberous taxes ruin us a bit too much, the little income we have always keeps shrinking. And what's more we're tenants and there's also the problem of rent, and none of that suits us. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The high taxes and mutliple favours to the state and above all the monopoly of the market causes us a serious problem. The government should intervene as soon as possible. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The job develops well, the only thing is that we always pay big taxes to the town council and that doesn't suit us. It has to end, if we are to develop better as we should. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We encounter a lot of difficulties, being secretly chased by state officials saying that we should pay I don't even know what and saying all sorts of things; and we don't have a choice of what to do because it's the job that keeps us alive. So the government must intervene in that matter so that one develops more, even us the wholesale dealers. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Supply of water and electricity would be useful to improve our activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state whould seriously punish people with bad intentions of stealing and losing other people's business. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state must force itself to reduce tases so that we can have customers. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state must punish thieves to avoid theft and also supply is with electricity because without electricity we can't do anything. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The SNEL should supply is with electricity so we can progress well with our activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state should reinforce security for the good progression of our activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We buy things abroad at great expense because in our country there isn't industry, the state must do everything it can to create industries above all food industries so that we can supply ourselves from here. It's really a step. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| There is a small improvement in the economy, the government is in the process of investing and improving living conditions by giving a small salary to state officials. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Maybe it everyone, particularly the merchants, put their money in the bank, the economy of the country could progressively improve, it's because we don't have much confidence in the government and particularly not the banks. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The economic situation is almost resolved for the moment because we see the government being a bit serious about the sector. The future is promising. One day Congo will be like South Africa. We must all but everything into our work, we must be honest in everything that we do. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Us merchants, we should also pay tax to help our government to have funds to intervene in all areas of life. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We know that the economic situation will improve one day if only each person works and the government intervenes and puts order into economic activity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If the government helped us in our economic activities we would already be further on. The government must improve the conditions we work under. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government must help us to secure ourselves a better setting for our business so that we in turn can be recognised. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The big problem that we have is lack of initiative. The government should held us in choosing which activity to do, maybe even instruct us. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Our country's economy is in decline because the government doesn't control the activities of merchants and doesn't encourage them overall. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The merchants and economic operators like this country, they want our economy to go forward but our government hinders us, it decourages us. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Our country produces absolutely nothing and, whatever potential we have, this always puts us in a deplorable condition. The government must create local industries to help prevent us wasting money on transport. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Choosing suppliers well to avoid running out of stock would be important, so would reduced taxes. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Your survey should help us by publishing the results of the research in a place which is accessible to all the motorcyclists and you should give ways and means that we can secure ourselves.
A questionnaire should be made in Swahili because ..*illegible word* most of the motorcyclists as many of them can neither read nor write. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| In short, business works well despite the unstabalised economic sector. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| There could be a net enrichment after each period if harassments ceased. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| In brief, busines works well in spite of the difficulties we find here and there (excessive taxes). | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Everthing seems to work well. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Despite the problems of unregulated taxes in the commercial sector by the authorities of the ministry, there's a net improvement when the growth of business is considered. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Even if the government doesn't put itself to work, we must do everything we can to solve certain problems in the medium term. We must fix prices dutifully to avoid problems of high prices all the time. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I believe that for a more effective economy the severe mentality of all Congolese, above all the economic operators, must be changed. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government must leave us free so we can make our activities effective because they're not helping at all. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Certainly, the government can't do anything by itself, everyone must help our government to work as it must with the goal of making the economic situation profitable. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The taxes that we pay our government are excessive compared to the fact that the state does nearly nothing for us. The government must equally impose sale prices on the Bralima. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state should supply us with electricity because with electricity our activities can increase well. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The suppliers must increase production to avoid stock running out. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state must punish wrong-doers and particularly thieves who take others possessions. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Be very careful to have merchandise each day to avoid stock running out. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The supplier, which is Bralima, must make an effort to satisfy its clients by avoiding running out of stock. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state should supply us with drinking water and electricity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state must reduce taxes so that customers can buy things at low prices, and also supply us with electricity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| In the setting of an effective and efficient result, security and financial stability would be the elements with can improve our sector to attain our objectives. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Work develops well but restaurants in this area *commune* have multiplied. You can tell the authorities to respect the law, before the establishment of a restaurant the state must give authorisation. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| One must always keep hope as it's a profitable activity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The pharmacy is a occupation hat saves lives and enables the qualitity of life of the population to improve but we we deserve some help from the provincial and national authorities and some NGOs (national and international). | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The agreements of Goma should be respected in order ofr peace to be effective in all the province so that our businesses work and generate income. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Congolese state should secure the merchants against harassment from the military (particularly the 14th Brigade Integres *Integrated Brigade*) and the unrecognised officials who charge taxes. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| As the Congolese state doesn't pay its officials in the public service anymore, the only option is business but this must now protect merchants from problems of all sorts. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We pay too many taxes to the state and the state does nothing and nothing for us, even human security, that discourages me in my business. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Life is very difficult here in Bukavu, particularly the dolar, each day the dollar increases adn that disturbs economic transactions and creates losses for us. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We have understood that when improving working conditions only a little runs smoothly. The Health Institution can have a good business if the population are aware of it. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The customers hould have the conscience to pay their debts so that our economic activities can go forward smoothly. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The suppliers, the Bralima, should improve production to fight against running out of stock and I should also force myself to avoid breakages of bottles and losses. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government must help us to supply ourselves with electricity and also with drinking water. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Without drinking water and electricity our business cannot improve from here, we ask the state to intervene with help. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should supply is with electricity and it should do everything it can to reduce taxes and customers should be conscientious in paying their debts. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should reduce taxes for the smooth running and punish all thieves seriously. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The suppliers should supply us with foods in mass production so the our economic activities improve well. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Congolese state should give a better salary to their workers to allow them to live better. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state should decrease the unofficial favours of the tax collection and the Bralima should increase production to avoid (diminish) the deficiency in the supply of beer. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The problem of transport is a great and preoccuping problem in the economic sector; the government must think about it. The roads, the airports, the elements must be modernised and run properly. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Bralima business must increase production in order to avoid the supply problem which causes a lack of earnings for the wholesaler and the retailer. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Security is imperative for all commercial activity of work well and create income. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| State officials must be given a good salary in order to increase their buying power. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| With strong political will power from our authorities we can always hope of a better economic future. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Have confidence in our authorities and hope that with the reunification and the elections quality of life will be improved. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We all have to support the five worksites/projects of our chief of state Joseph Kabila for everything to work 100%. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If prices we're every stable and my Kiosk was very well situated in a place where there are sales, it would be a good business. Also, that survey can help bring some good to my job.
Thank you. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Our business is quietly proseperous and I hope will develop marverlously, but it is only state officials and their favours which harass us a bit too much, they make us uncomfortable. But other than that our business develops very well. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We lack motivation, I believe that no one can do much if they are discouraged by the person who is sent to help them. Grants/subsidies would be necessay and urgent for a better yield. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| In my work, one sees many variations of the price of goods on the market from one day to another and a great decrease in goods without being notified or even informed and that doesn't encourage our business. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We have great confidence that our government will do everything to banish the pirate markets of medicines. This will profit the good health of the population and the public treasury. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The economic future of the DRC is unsure, and there is a multitude of favours to the state going on, which are fleecing us. | 1 | 0.216 % |
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| We really have a thirst to sell but we find the problem in our business is often that we lack merchandise. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Insecurity causes problems in our economic activity as we can never develop our business. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Competition is excessive in economic activities, to comabt the difficulties we should fight against it. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Bralima should produce other types of drink for the development of our business and so that we develop as a country. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should do everything it can to improve economic activity by joing all the world in the growth of the public sector. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The governemnt is the coordinator of everything, in this case it must organise the economic situation by reducing taxes and other problems which preoccupy us, equally transport. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| President Kabila personally wants to improve the efficacy of the economy but he must be aware that realities of life of each layer of the population; for us, for example, the problems of taxes and roads make us poor. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| People react to incentives. The government has to encourage us in our activities so that we can fulfill our obligations. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state must control Bralima, Bralima imposes prices as it likes on retailers, in these case we are also obliged to increase prices, and in the end we ruin the consumers. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The situation is catastrophic because our government is not devoting itself to improving the economic conditions, it's always signing contracts here and there without concrete actions on the ground. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The questionnaire submitted to this survey should include a great number of merchants and agents undertaking other activities generating income, and in the local languages so that each agent can have their turn to speak about our activities.
The result of the survey whould be put at the disposition of the population undertaking income generating activities so that they can understand and analyse the economic environment better. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| There was instability after changing the name that meant there was a reduction in subscriptions but this work the new operators will be informed. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We ask these researchers to plead our case to the government so that they come to our assistance. Security should be re-established in the town and countryside. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The questionnaires of this survey are not comprehensible but also after the analysis of the survey, what will be done to improve our work? | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The vehicules are in bad condition are on our main route and that means that we lose time on the way. It is for you to tell those concerned to take measures to help us as sometimes when we do market days we arrive while the merchandise is still on the way. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Except for the war the future is promising. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| No businesses would fail if the state was well structured and organised, because it controls all *actions/shares*. For example Bralima, which is alone without competition, meaning that supply and demand has been overridden. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We suggest the following:
That the state makes our task easier so we can undertake our service.
That the *departments/favours* of the state are reduced to the minimum. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| A normal person must eat everyday but here the electricity fails us, but we are convinced that you will give this request to the authorities of SNEL South Kivu. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should:
Make the act of healing respected and punish *chantiller?* the thugs who harass the pharmaceutical products and scatter them on the roads .
The government should apply itself to policy in the pharmaceutical sector. Not only in making sure tax is paid but it must also pay attention to law as all sectors have legislation to govern them. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We find that that the employees of the public phones have the good intention of paying their taxes if only SNEL guaranteed them the availability of electricity, the abscence of which forces them to avoid some taxes. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state should simplify the setting of taxes.
The prive of developing films should we stable.
The rate of the dollar should be stable in all provinces of our country. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We hope that the provincial government can put order into the sector of public phone booths; that the NGOs can help us with financial and material funds; that the security forces involve themselves in the matter of telephone thefts. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should intervene in commercial activities in order to deter people who try to harm others. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state must do everything it can to support the pharmacists and to protect them, above all from people with bad will who try to harm the business (the sale of medicine). | 1 | 0.216 % |
| When we posed the questions to the manager of the pharmacy he indicated that everything worked well but the only problems were the exchange rate, tax, security and electricity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The shop shows that it's true that it guarantees a livelihood to those that work in it but there are also problems that don't work for them: exchange rate, tax, security, electricity. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The capacity shows that there are lots of incomes for workers and that their livelihoods are guaranteed but the only problem, taxes, hinders us a lot, where is the Congolese government? Where do our taxes go? This question deserves a response from the government. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| A livelihood is guarunteed well but the only problem, taxes, hinders us a lot, where is the Congolese government? Where do the taxes go? These questions merit a response from the government. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| In economic activity we have not only the problems of taxes and barriers but also trouble with accommondation. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Bralima should take its work seriously as it sends broken bottles and then refuses to take them back.
A drop in the number of goods absent from the market.
The government should put some guidance *unclear handwriting* on the Bralima.
The government should regulate the movements of taxes. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government should regulate the way we work, ie. work hours and breaks.
The roads must improve.
The wages of workers must be paid. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The French say that the bird makes its nest little by little, it's true, but with such an increase in just electricity and tax each day we give at least $2, we call on the government to intervene so that the average business figure moves. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Work is great for us, no one disturbs us and we don't have too many problems. The problems of tax and other similar stories are dealt with at a higher level. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The Congolese state should diminish tax favours and taxes and punish similar favours, who collect taxes on their behalf. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The job develops quite well but the government must help us create the sale places of goods, above all without harassment from officials from the urban networks, with thtat I hope to become a very big firm.
| 1 | 0.216 % |
| Obtaining information about business figures has not been possible as the businessman seems to be scared of making them visible to the corrupt people who lead the state services. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| All the networks should have the same tariffs to allow the population to choose, in the contrary case reduce the difference. It is possible thanks to you, who have come down to the area. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state should give work to some people who have finished their studies but are still unemployed. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Not too many problems as we find lots of money but we call on the government to "gendronner" *?control/confine?* our road Ngoino so that it's not like Rwanda. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Needs of the population:
Creation of jobs
Creation of schools with good training
Agreement of study grants | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Needs of the population:
Stability of electricity
Stability of water
Self-financing
Upkeep of roads
Education | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Needs of the population:
Orgnisation of training for farmers
Organisation of education of illiterates
Restoration of dilapidated schools
Also to remember the most destitute | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Lack of employment;
The price of basic essentials is too expensive;
Transport is too complicated;
Sales are not good. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| In the Congo you have to manage by yourself;
Lack of jobs;
Poor infrastructure. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Poor employment prospects for graduates;
Lack of power supply;
Lack of good roads. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Level of educational training is too low;
Misappropriation of public goods;
The five areas of reform ("Les 5 Chantiers") designated by the government are not tackled equally. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The level of education is poor;
Quality of life is poor;
No hospitals.
| 1 | 0.216 % |
| Lack of employment;
Education is too expensive;
Roads are impassable. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Lack of proper work.
No good roads.
Education is prohibitively expensive.
Tribalism. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Tribalism.
Life is hard.
The government is not sticking to its five designated areas of reform. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Lack of employment. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Life is hard in the Congo.
Work is hard and the salary is poor. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| No good working policies.
Tribalism.
Politics ignores the real problems. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Lack of transport. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| No work.
The govenrment's plans are badly carried out.
Theft. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The working environment is difficult.
Tribalism.
Knowledge to get a job. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Minimal salary.
No good roads.
Things are too expensive. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Racism.
Poor salaries in the Congo.
Tribalism. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Children's education is too costly.
Teachers are not payed. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The bare necessities are too expensive.
Education is too expensive.
Lack of employment policies. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Social life in general is not good. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| In all areas, life is complicated. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Lack of employment.
Tribalism.
Racism. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Poor salary.
No health benefits (hospitals). | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Corruption;
Misuse of state resources by the authorities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state must have people who create other businesses which can lead this country to advance. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| No work.
Diversion of public funds.
Teachers are not being paid. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The state dreams of constructing good schools for children. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| I wish that one could improve the social condition of the population and the one could sort out the wages of state functionaries.
Notably: teachers, military and doctors. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Employment policies are non-existant.
Average level of education.
No electric power supply. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Improvement in social conditions of the population. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Th most important problems are the lack of materials in the warehouse and lack of electricity and water are the biggest problems in the city. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| In connection to the incomes of different businesses, I note that the living conditions of workers are not good. Also, in the different districts of the town of Lubumbashi there is a lack of electricity and drinking water. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| According to the research I noticed that there are always problems with electricity in the different businesses in the town of Lubumbashi as well as the lack of finacial support in commercial activities. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| If needs be we ask the whites to do everything they can to help us with*machines, crosschecking*, and goods *illegible* this pharmacy.
*Largely illegible* | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Bring us glasses to work well to protect our eyes. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| The government finds the soluciton of paying us a wage *established? Illegible* by the state. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| We tellthem that they must bring us shoes and better clothing for good work, not lie to us. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Worry more of my merchandise, which is always out of date, is giving more illnesses to the population despite bringing us more recent *illegible - recceration?* . | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Help us with materials - tables, chairs and the good things from where you are. Thank you. | 1 | 0.216 % |
| *Long comment which seems to have been rubbed out, something about help and human rights* | 1 | 0.216 % |
| Total | 462 | 100.000 % |
