Removing some of the country’s critical barriers to the realization of an internationally competitive economy requires a greater sense of urgency on the parts of both the public and private sectors, the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has told the Stabroek Business.
On Wednesday this newspaper met with GCCI President Vishnu Doerga to seek the Chamber’s views on the extent to which progress had been achieved on realizing critical benchmarks in twenty areas considered as barriers to Guyana’s competitiveness. Promulgated in 2013 in a document styled a Competitiveness Manifesto, the Chamber said at the time that it considered the realization of the set benchmarks as critical to “sustaining significantly higher economic growth, reducing poverty, creating good jobs for our labour force, building strong businesses and a healthy private sector.
