A proposal to President Masisi: Game-changing economic policy reforms - a five-point plan

In a LinkedIn blog, Ziyad Jawabra notes that although technically Nokia did nothing wrong, it was their refusal to change and learn new things that led to their demise.

One lesson we can learn from Nokia’s story is the importance of sustained competitiveness and strategic adaptation. Just like a company, a country needs to have systems to enable continued global competitiveness and adapting to change.  This involves the constant review of its economic policy to ensure resilience, development and drive job creation. Our country has the people, the skills and the goodwill to address the challenges of low economic growth and unemployment. In this article, I present a five-point plan, which will hopefully trigger valuable public discourse that will lead to the formulation of an economic policy package that would guarantee job creating economic growth.