Is Government procurement a non fiscal incentive?
Government Procurement contracts is a very powerful, and yet often untapped, policy leaver to drive economic growth and development.
Author: Ainsley Brown
Ainsley Brown is currently working as the Director of Trade, Regulatory, Analysis & Policy for the Jamaica Special Economic Zone Authority (JSEZA) and is called to the Bar of Upper Canada (Ontario), Canada. His primary role is to provide technical advice on regulatory matters and trade matters to the CEO and team at JSEZA.
He holds a LLM in International Commercial Law (with Merit) from the University of Westminster, having earned a diploma in law from London Metropolitan University and a BA (Hons) in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.
Ainsley is the Administrator of Commercial Law International and has an avid interest in logistics, global value chains; economic development; trade; commercial awareness; green energy; rugby; etc.
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What is an Economic Engagement Network and why is it important to your business?
Countries enter agreements between each other all the time for a variety of things. A burning question businesses frequently ask is how do they impact (positive or negative) me? For an Economic Engagement Network: the value is in the connections. In order to leverage this network and create value or mitigate any negatives for your business requires a total mindset change. Rather than viewing these agreements in isolation and disconnected I invite you to start viewing these agreements as networks and platforms that support global value chains.
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Why did Jamaica implement its Special Economic Zones Regime?
There are principally three reasons why Jamaica changed its Zone Regime from Free Zone to SEZ and these are 1.WTO compliance, 2. IMF Agreement and 3.Improving Jamaica’s global competitiveness.
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Aligning business, physical and governance models critical for special economic zone success
In order for zone regimes and the investors they attract to set themselves up for the best success - have a go at it - much will depend on the regime's design, the implementation of this design and its responsiveness to changing global investment and trade trends. What is more, both policymakers and investors alike in doing so have to make sure that their business models, physical designs and governance structures of their special economic zone are all aligned.
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Building an Economic Engagement network between Africa and the Caribbean
An Economic Engagement Network is about how nations can improve their competitiveness by finding and creating value through the complex interplay between the various agreements (e.g. trade, investment treaties, double taxation agreements, air service agreements, standards mutual recognition, etc.) that they enter between each other.
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How Lee Kuan Yew made me think more pragmatic about the sharing of my ideas
This is something I still firmly believe however what I have come to learn, understand and appreciate, thanks Lee Kuan Yew, is that that ‘proper role for government’ or as a private citizen has to be tempered with a degree of pragmatism. A part of this means putting your ideas out there and stimulating dialog.
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What is Global Economic Governance?
The global economic governance system not only limits but at times directs policy choice/options of policy makers especially in the developing world. It will come as no surprise then that policy makers ands investors alike take a keen interest in this system.
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Special Economic Zones and Global Economic Governance: Jamaica’s Economic Independence
Jamaica’s SEZ Regime, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic has become an island of calm in a turbulent ocean. The SEZ Regime represents for Jamaica’s economic independence a policy instrument that creates safe haven for near shore manufacturing, logistics, distribution, outsourcing services, etc ready to serve the 1-billion-person market in the Americas and beyond.
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Economic Regulation: The ‘visible hand’ guiding special economic zones
Economic Regulation provides...the he ‘visible hand’ guiding and enabling the special economic zone (SEZ) ecosystem to work more effectively to achieving the stated economic development objectives of a SEZ Programme.
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Living with COVID means every business has to be a safety business
In December in 2020 I published an article in Jamaica’s oldest and largest newspaper, the Gleaner, under the title: COVID Has Made Every Firm A Safety Business. What follows is the original article with bonus materials. “For safety is not a gadget but a state of mind.” Eleanor Everet I spotted and read an article in May of this year… Continue reading "Living with COVID means every business has to be a safety business"