10 YEAR STRATEGY : Turnout at the end of the week launching of the NIDPS
By Staff Writer
A set plan to give national industries the needed push to grow, is now in place to guide Samoa over the next decade.
All the guidelines to follow are in the National Industry Development Policy Strategy, NIDPS, to support setting up and growing new industries in selected priority areas.
The new policy strategies or NIDPS looks into ways to encourage and create more new industrial activities.
It helps mature businesses with new changes to widen their reach benefit from better profits.
The policy plan includes attracting more investments to expand growth and better profit margins.
The Ministry of Commerce Industry and Labour, MCIL, with support from the New Zealand Private Sector Programme, put the new policy strategy in place.
Samoa has never had an industry development policy that identifies priority industries with the best prospects for growth, and the policy framework to support them,” CEO Pulotu Lyndon Chu Ling of MCIL noted at the NIDPS launching.
Pulotu also acknowledge the New Zealand technical support in putting the new policy strategy together as the first for Samoa.
