Crecimiento, innovación e inclusividad

The world we live in post the global financial crisis is undeniably a different place to the world before the crisis. Since the crisis, structural changes that had been taking place in the global economy have accelerated and been brought into clearer focus. These changes have profound implications for the way policymakers and the private sector think about global markets, the expansion of international trade and the diversification of export markets.

The Government of Jamaica has reaffirmed that export-led growth is critical to the country’s economic survival. In this age of hyper-globalization, improving the integration of Jamaican goods and services into the global value chain is the primary means of achieving sustainable long-term economic growth.

The positive influence of telecommunication services on the growth and development of a country is undisputed. A large pool of statistics from organizations including the World Bank, Deloitte and Booze & Company demonstrates strong links between the growth in mobile and broadband penetration, labour productivity and a country’s GDP.