PPP/C Guyana Version 2.0 (Excerpts) A Vibrant, Resilient and Progressive Economy
The PPP/C leadership ticket, presidential candidate, incumbent President Donald Ramotar, and prime ministerial candidate, Elisabeth Harper
The PPP/C leadership ticket, presidential candidate, incumbent President Donald Ramotar, and prime ministerial candidate, Elisabeth Harper

GUIDED by the responsible stewardship of the PPP/C Government, Guyana’s economy has defied global and regional trends and registered nine years of uninterrupted growth. This outstanding performance has facilitated significant improvements in the quality of life enjoyed by all Guyanese.
Our vision for the future is one of an economy that is vibrant, resilient, and that will generate enough wealth to ensure that the aspirations of all our peoples can be realised in the shortest possible time.
Our economy has registered sustained and impressive growth rates since 1992, but particularly over the last 10 years. This growth has spawned thousands of new jobs for Guyanese.
The PPP/C believes that Guyana must continue to grow and compete in regional and global markets in order to assure higher living standards for all. Building a strong, resilient and stable economy will provide greater opportunities, jobs, security and increased prosperity. The PPP/C will make long-term, strategic choices to ensure that our economy generates more businesses and jobs. The PPP/C will work within every sector, particularly in less populated areas, to provide opportunities for job creation and the establishment of small and medium-sized businesses for our young people in all regions, by creating the right incentives for investment and business promotion.
Notwithstanding the maturity of the traditional sectors (rice, sugar, gold, bauxite, forestry), the PPP/C Government will remain committed to ensuring their long-term viability, modernisation and profitability.
We will Improve Productivity and Competitiveness by:
* Reducing bureaucracy
* Simplifying the tax system
* Improving access to financing
* Promoting the use of technology
* Promoting a highly skilled workforce
* Providing energy security
* Marketing the Brand Guyana
* Expanding infrastructure and policies conducive to business development

Our economic plan is consistent with the following critical outcomes:
* Strong Economic Growth: Continued strong real growth in gross domestic product, increasing per capita income, stimulating national and individual wealth creation and poverty reduction, and bringing the benefits of growth to all Guyanese.
* Fiscal and Monetary Management: Prudent management of public finances to work for a balanced budget, long-term debt sustainability, adequate external balances, exchange rate stability, low domestic price inflation, and expansion of credit to the private sector.
* Economic Diversification: Rapid diversification of the productive base, reduce vulnerability to external market volatility and increase resilience, built on both a strengthening of the traditional sectors and accelerated facilitation of the new frontiers of growth.
* Job Creation: Focus on job- intensive growth with special emphasis on sectors that create meaningful employment, and ensuring that our education system equips our young people for the requirements of the new economy.
* Improved Infrastructure: Strengthening the infrastructural and institutional prerequisites for improved competitiveness and higher productivity.
* Strong Private Sector: Facilitating further growth of the private sector. Prompting a mixed economy where investment will be attracted from local and foreign capital, and public-private partnerships will be pursued for specific areas such as infrastructural development.
Under the next PPP/C Government, the new economy of Guyana will be driven by buoyant growth and expansion of the following sectors: Environmental and Climate Services; Large scale mineral, oil, and gas exploration and extraction; Energy Development, including renewable energy; Large scale agriculture, agro-processing and agro-business; Information and Communications Technology Services; Tourism and Hospitality; and Transformative Infrastructure.

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