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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Pact between business, local execs to be sought in competitiveness summit
THE partnership between government and private sector in the drive to move the engine of the national economy faster and more efficient will now expand to include provincial governors and mayors.
One of the new outputs determined by the group doing the spadework towards the competitiveness summit will be the signing of covenants between leaders of the League of Provinces and the League of Municipalities on one hand, and the core group behind the competitiveness advocacy, on the other hand.
Aside from Trade Undersecretary Thomas Aquino as summit chairman, the core group of summit organizers includes two former trade secretaries, Roy Navarro and Cesar Bautista; Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PCCI) president Donald Dee; Philippine Exporters Confederation (Philexport) president Sergio R. Ortiz-Luis Jr.; and trade and investment executives Celeste Ilagan, Raul Angeles, Virgilio Fulgencio and Fernando Cala II.
The summit was originally going to finalize a doable action agenda that would immediately prop up the ability of the country to compete for wider markets abroad and in luring in foreign investments.
A National Competitiveness Council (NCC) was likewise planned to be organized and delineated to make sure that the action program will be done.
In the latest pre-summit workshop, two technical working groups, those tackling the cost of doing business and those getting to the bottom of government and business management issues, arrived at the same conclusion that a national competitiveness program could only succeed if and when local governments own it up.
It was determined that a big bulk of the action and much of the bottlenecks in business transactions happen at the town or city hall. The governors and mayors need to own up and act on the drive for simpler and faster processes.
This can go a long way in nursing small businesses into more agile and more successful enterprises. (Abe P. Belena/Philexport News and Features/Sunnex)
(September 5, 2006 issue)
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