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has airports, ports, good network of roads, amenities like water and electricity
and hosts of other things. More importantly, our delivery system like whether
civil servants, who represent the government, understand their requirements
for better investments or not?
This represents a big challenge to us. SCORE introduces new kind of problem
to us in the way we want to utilize fully the private sector initiatives and
entrepreneurship in development towards the year 2020 and beyond. We have
to build, in short time, skills among civil servants to enable them to respond
constructively in dialogues with big investors. For example, they must learn new
work processes and understand the position of big corporations in negotiating with
them. Basically, they must know how to work together with the private sector,
which must be assisted to become a new engine of growth in the development
and growth of the economy towards the year 2020 and beyond.
Basically, we must try to develop our capability
and capability to deal with them. Once they stay with
us, we can help to develop their interests to plan for
the expansion of their ventures or undertake new ones.
Basically, we must be able to work with them, which
require us to equip ourselves with necessary knowledge
and experience to handle big investments into the
country.
For example, the World Bank or other inancial
institutions have developed a lot of standards, which can
be considered to be quite fair to developing countries, in
accordance with equatorial principle or environmental
requirements. We have to study the requirements as part
and parcel of development and responsibility to become
a developed country.

Colossal Task Ahead
Generally, we must consider many problems, not
least the environment, as we accelerate the pace of
development in order to attain the status of a developed
country. For example, we must refrain from spending
“Eddy Covariance all the money or borrowing more money and left them
Tower” to measure to be paid by the younger generations in the name of Research facilities to strengthen R&D
carbon lux in the capabilities of Sarawak
ecosystem
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