The
Prime Minister took an important preliminary step
towards developing the
Kingdom’s business and investment environment when he
formed a steering committee — comprising six technical subcommittees — to
facilitate this development process and increase the environment’s appeal.
اضافة اعلان
Although somewhat late, the step is very important for the
economy, and is closely tied to the private sector, particularly issues of
licensing, investment, inspection, product costs, bureaucracy, export, and the
processes that fall under each of these aspects.
An increasing involvement in the private sector’s problems will aid the
national economy, seeing as the private sector is the cornerstone of economic growth.
The government could not have made any progress in its march for development
without the private sector, because it cannot afford to recruit now, at a time
when the public sector has more than twice its need of manpower. Therefore, the
government’s only option is to resort to the private sector, which is in need
of the following:
First: To sustain its productivity and work without setbacks, and to maintain
real and existing investments by resolving its pending issues with various
state institutions.
Second: Incentives to allow for the expansion of its
economic activities, so that it can offer more jobs to Jordan’s youth, 50
percent of whom are unemployed.
But despite the importance of the prime minister’s decision,
it still lacks a key element, which is the private sector’s engagement in the
work of the aforementioned subcommittees. With exception to the primary
steering committee, which is headed by the prime minister and comprises the
membership of the presidents of the Jordan chambers of industry and commerce,
the private sector has no representation on any of the committees.
It makes no
sense for government officials to convene and discuss matters of the private
sector in its absence.
The one-stop shop for licensing and facilitation of commercial
activities targets the private sector, not government employees, and yet, the
private sector has no representation on that platform.
The lack of private sector representation at a number of
government committees deprives the latter of practical expertise that they
simply do not possess. If we were to assume that the government’s people were
aware of the private sector’s problems, then they should be expected to solve, not
complicate them.
Utilizing the private sector’s expertise and keeping a close
eye on its day-to-day problems with government institutions will allow
committee officials to reach mutual understandings that serve the development
process, which requires genuine cooperation between the public and private
sectors, as opposed to strictly governmental committees where ministers and
their secretaries meet behind closed doors.
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