A
country with strong working Governance practices, which has currently
budgeted 4.39% of the nation's annual expenditure, is ideal for safe and
monitored investment opportunities. A non-executive president, head of state,
guiding the nation's population in their moral beliefs and ethical duties,
backed by statutory independent regulators. A judiciary interprets the nation's
laws, pronouncing punishment or rehabilitation on lawbreakers. A parliament of lawmakers examines all angles
and issues, to strengthen existing and make new laws to benefit its population.
An executive cabinet supported by legal advice, designs policies and, through
several well established ministries, oversees policy implementation and daily
operations.
An
economy, which devotes 28.2% of the current national annual budget in its Fiscal Policy to balance wealth distribution and prevent social unrest, is perfect
for principal protection. The Ministry of Finance implements the executive's
fiscal policy, working alongside the central bank's monetary policy, to balance
the nation's budget and service debts, guaranteed by the nation but which the
original borrower could not service. The expenditure category Charges on
Account of the Public Debt deal with the current servicing (Principal and Interest)
of the nation's debt. The budget line item Pension & Gratuities manages
public officers’ retirement benefits.
A
society with multiple Economic Drivers, which currently uses 5.48% of
the nation's annual budgeted expenditure, is ripe for income growth. A ministry
of energy and energy industries oversees the well-developed extractive
industries, inclusive of the heavily depended on petroleum sector. An agri-business
sector, under developed, is administered by a ministry of agriculture, land and
fisheries. An under developed tourism sector is coordinated by a ministry of
tourism. Planning and development, foreign affairs, labour and small business,
trade and industries, are regulatory controls to facilitate commerce.
A
nation's productivity depends heavily on its Infrastructure Management,
of which 19.97% of the current national annual budget is devoted. Ministries
oversee and administrate the nation's utilities (water and electricity
distribution), works and transport, its housing, urban and rural development,
in association with and alongside locally elected governing bodies,
corporations and assemblies.
A
population, the nation's people, its citizenry Human Development, which
devotes 28.9% of the current national annual budget, is most important toward
raising its standard of living. Numerous ministries implement and guide
policies to affect health, education, social and family services, community
(culture and the arts), sports and youth affairs, to constantly produce a
highly skilled and productive population.
A
society's safety, assigned to its Resource Preservation, concerns every
aspect of property and people's life, which devotes 13.05% of the current
national annual budget. A ministry of national security controls the approved
budgeted financial allocation for the nation's defence force, consisting of its
army, coast and air guard. The nation's police service is in total control of
its own budgetary line item allocation.
Hence,
investment invited into a small economy, having bilateral free trade agreements
to access many large economies, is part of the decision making process driving
results. Such investment is made safe and is monitored by the same or better
governance practices than exist in large economies' boardrooms. Invited
investment is protected from capital erosion by sound fiscal policy preserving
its principal and maintaining its original currency value. Noting that, investment
can fund opportunities anywhere in the world, it is actively sourced by many
nations to fund new or the expansion of its economic drivers, but decisions to
invest is mainly driven by a comparison of many nations’ resource preservation,
human development and infrastructure management, policies, which guides performance.
Foreign Direct Investment is invited to achieve synergies and needed Diversification.
Rationale
T.A.J & Associates Company Limited uses this occasion to comment on topics that have been covered, both academically
and by the mainstream media, to add its opinion and point out investment
opportunity, not to invoke any social action.
