The Forgotten Sector: Domestic Commerce
The Forgotten Sector: Domestic Commerce It has been 8 years since the minister of commerce accepted my advice and research and announced that the Ministry of Commerce also undertake some work on providing a supporting policy framework for pulling domestic commerce out of its suffocated state. He had also announced that the Ministry of Commerce would produce a "State of Commerce" report annually. At considerable expense consulting reports on domestic commerce were done. But then where is the "State of Commerce (SOC)?" When will the MOC have that? The following outline for the SOC was agreed between the MOC, DIFD and the UNDP. The report was to consist of 2 section with 11 chapters. The first section was designed to cover external Trade. MOC agreed to speak to the country's competitiveness, develop local indicators and analyse trends in competitiveness to determine the appropriateness of policy and regulatory framework. In understanding competitiveness,...