•  Improving the business environment, enhancing innovation and increasing the skill level of the workforce play a key role in boosting labour productivity. •  Increasing the flexibility of labour market, which would ensure that wages are aligned with productivity developments and reflect competitiveness at the sectoral and firm level as well as the regional employment situation.
The main thing we need from the international community is a better understanding of our reality, and support for these policies. Instead, the IMF, the rating agencies, the Basel  BIS central bankers’ speeches  1  Committee and the OECD have all taken well-meaning initiatives which have in some way threatened the success of our adjustment and growth strategy.