Transcript Improving - Competitiveness Unit Suriname

Improving
Suriname’s Competitiveness
Transformation towards Welfare and Prosperity for all
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Definitions of competitiveness
1.Productivity in which countries use their
Human, Financial en natural resources; Porter
2. Set of Institutes, policies and factors that
determine the level of productivity; WEF
3. Creating / maintaining an environment that
guarantees value addition for businesses and
welfare for the population ; IMD
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Structure CUS
CUS EST. JUNE 2012
Thought: Economic
Development Council
Competitiveness
Unit Suriname
Secretariat
I.
Business
Climate
Reform
Suriname Business
Forum
Monitoring
& Reporting
II.
III.
Innovation
Law &
Governance
& Industrial
Policy
IV.
Human Capital
Development
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Tasks CUS ( cont.)
• Coordinating government action to strengthen
National Competitive Power
• Roadmap Private Sector Development (Two
year project )
• Development and Monitoring of Doing
Bussiness Agenda
• Development and monitoring National
Competitiveness Strategy
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Tasks CUS
• Establish consultation between Ministries /
Institutions
• Stakeholders Envolvement
• Identification priorities growth sectors
• Development and Monitoring Suriname
Competitiveness Agenda
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Business Efficiency Drivers
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SIX things to do now
to improve Suriname’s
competitiveness
1. Prioritize attractive key (sub) sectors
2. Develop Industrial Policy
3. Align tertiary training and generate more graduates with
knowledge and skills relevant to Gold, Oil and Energy
4. Support applied research into non-traditional and alternative
uses of natural resource products ( value addition )
5. Improve institutional capacity to support business growth
6. Establish a population growth policy to increase Market Size
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Draft Work Plan CUS ( cont.)
• Agreed a definition of competitiveness
• Build on the draft benchmarking study
• Statement on priority actions required to
enhance Suriname’s competitiveness
• Agree a process for reviewing key documents
circulated to the council of ministers and to
advise the VP accordingly
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Draft Work plan CUS
• Modification of the template document for
circulation to the council of ministers to ask a
specific question about the impact of the
proposal for employment and
competitiveness
• Coordinate competitiveness efforts
• Agreement with the VP and others on the
mandate of the competitiveness unit
• Hiring of mid-level managers for the unit
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Competitiveness Forum Suriname
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THANK YOU
WITOUTH CUS
WITH CUS
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