What is happening?

• With the Globalisation, the economy is changing, the world is changing therefore the role of state has to change as well.

• The change is also within the fact that in the past we were talking about mass production manufacturing, with the information age, intangible elements such as knowledge, creativity, innovation .. will are the source of a nation’s competitiveness

• no interference in the market of the state yes but the state still Regulate but not Control, Facilitate not interfere, Enable the environment, Initiate and acts as a catalyst

• Global institutions to discipline the countries, yes but if those countries choose to adopt this discipline, if the countries help themselves first and do their own home work.

• The global economy is based on the knowledge society concept, and there is a huge emerged gap between developed countries and developing countries the human capital has to be in the heart of the strategy

• The Asian success stories underline the processduplicate, assimilate, absorb, innovate, produce and create

• Financial crisis shows the fragile balance between the market economy and the development requirement

Where do we stand (Developing Countries)? :

• Position is not something given, position is something that we have to deserve: critical mass, stronger economy, less dependency, better management, transparency …

• There is a real need of reforms in the financial, public and labor sectors in order to be a player in the net economy. Our systems have to move from an ill institution, traditional, narrow minded to a more flexible, innovative, risky (venture capital) and knowledge institutions

• We are not condemned to underdevelopment unless we move from expectations to actions, from speeches to budget, from bureaucracy to efficiency, from autocracy to participation, from Babel tour to democracy.

• There is no ideal imported model, there is best practices, there is experience sharing, there is orientation, there is accumulation but there is also cleverness, there is vision, there is development necessities, there is citizen needs policy driven and social & economic development needs policy

• The market economy is not a fatality it has to be a balanced strategy and model between what we NEED to do and what we HAVE to do. We need to put together the market economy policy with democracy and welfare to improve quality of life of people

Therefore:

• We have to be humble and learn from the others
• We have to be efficient and benefit from the global economy
• We have to be responsible and improve quality of life of the citizen
• We have to be realistic and act regarding our context
• We need to cooperate and to collaborate within a fair partnership framework

• We have to learn and accumulate on yesterday, to deal with today and to plan in order to project ourselves in the sustainable tomorrow for our countries and shape the future.

It is We by We

The role of International organisations:

• IMF, WTO, World Bank, UN, EU,….. can create a synergy and play a role of catalyst, they can advise and usually they recommend, but can not make the choice on our behalf, can not decide on our behalf, can not lead our destiny but if we don’t.

• They should seek ways to help the developing countries become full partners in the global economy

• Concerted efforts must be made to reduce knowledge gap

• Strengthen the assistance in information and technology transfer and human resources development

• Accompanied the countries in their development process (advocacy, experience sharing, expertise,..) and UN agencies did.

• Care for those who are lagging behind or alienated in the globalisation (otherwise it is an other form of discrimination)

• Solidarity between developed and developing countries and among developing countries as well

When developing countries are better off, the market for developed countries will expand too (win/win situation)

We are what we know, what do we need to know?

• We know ICT can help, it is an instrument, we should know how to use it to ensure a minimum of standard of leaving to people

• We know international organisations, we should know how to explode the right opportunism and to act as a real partner

• We know the potential of the private sector, we should know the market and enable the right environment

• We know our people, we should know how to involve them and how to put them in the right position, we should know how to listen to them we should know how to value them and focus on human resources development, giving them the opportunity to actively applying their mind to generate high added value for society and for themselves