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STRONGER TOGETHER: The OECS can work together to promote connectivity and
best practices across the region, leading to greater gains for all.
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OECS countries can learn from each other’s best practices to create a stronger,
regional market:
• Achieve
economies of scale
• Focus on improving and
harmonizing regulations
to attract and develop local investment.
• Coordinating the reform efforts to
reduce the costs of adopting technologies
to improve
the efficiency of government.
If each OECS country were to adopt the region’s best practice in
each of the
Doing
Business indicators, they would rank
80 out of 190 countries – an improvement of 40 places.