This clearly indicates that we need to focus on the 7L deficits – Land, Linkages, Labour, Legal, Liquidity, Leadership and Learning deficits – for boosting the investment climate for both domestic and foreign investors.
Finally, I believe each one of us can play a part in the globally turbulent and domestically challenging times by drawing inspiration from a prayer from the American theologian and public affairs commentator Reinhold Neibuhr who very aptly said: God give us grace to accept with serenity things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.