“The Provincial Competiitveness report 2016” published
The Economic Policy and Competitiveness Research Center presented the provincial rankings and the findings of the 5th Provincial Competitiveness Study on May 19th 2017 during a press conference that was jointly organized by the EPCRC, Asia Foundation and the German International Cooperation (GIZ) Integrated Mineral Resource Initiative programme.
Findings and Provincial Rankings
Strengths and Weaknesses:
You can find the strengths and the weaknesses of each of the provinces by comparing the 180 criteria according to the four main factors: economic efficiency, government efficiency, business efficiency and infrastructure.
Improvements and declines:
The report provides the 20 biggest improvements and 20 declines in comparisons to the previous year for each of the provinces. You can also see the evolution of improvements and declines of each province by comparing their performance year by year.
Highlights from this year’s report:
Competitiveness scores of Orkhon, Darkhan-Uul, Umnugobi, Sukhbaatar provinces have been relatively high and they remained morre competitive than the other provinces during the last five years. This year, Orkhon still leads the rankings as the most competitive province followed by Umnugobi and Darkhan-Uul while Arkhangai, Dundgobi, Gobi-Altai provinces are ranked the last. Provinces with higher competitiveness scores generally perform better in terms of industrial development, infrastructure, workplaces, health services and safe environment compared to the other provinces.
Provinces with the highest changes in their competitiveness scores:
This year Dornogobi, Uvurkhangai, Bayan-Ulgii improved their competitiveness scores the most. On the contrast, competitiveness scores of Arkhangai, Gobi-Altai, Zavkhan provinces declined the most. The overall competitiveness score of Dornogobi increased mainly due to improvements in government efficiency. In addition to that business efficiency indicators contributed the most to the overall improvement. Declines in economic efficiency and infrastructure indicators contributed the most in the deterioration of Arkhangai’s performance while business efficiency and infrastructure indicators of Gobi-Altai were relatively low.
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Challenges businesses face:
We have included an open question asking for the most pressing challenges that the provinces are facing and the solutions that the local governors should consider in order to improve the competitiveness and business environment in the provinces. Below are some of the most repeated answers
- Support businesses through tax and loan policy
- Reduce commercial bank credit rate
- Increase the number of workforces
- Improve the cooperation between the public and the private sector actors
We hope that the provincial governors and the decision makers find this report useful and expand their opportunities of cooperation with each other.
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