Challenges for Improving the Competitiveness of the Private Sector in Macedonia. Final Report of the Brainstorming Sessions at the Workshop. Held in Skopje, Macedonia on June 4, 2009

摘要

The Center for Economic Analysis (hereinafter CEA's) assignment is to conduct a workshop with key representatives from the private sector, chambers of commerce, industry associations, relevant government institutions and donors. The purpose of this workshop was to provide USAID/Macedonia with an initial understanding of the challenges that the private sector is facing in order to achieve greater productivity and competitiveness on the global markets. The workshop was organized by the CEA team on the 4th of June 2009 in Hotel Bellevue Skopje. The organization was carried out on previously approved lists of invitees, methodology and agenda. The list of invitees totaled 150 representatives, of which: 89 were from the private sector, 14 representatives from the faculties, 12 representatives from the chambers of commerce, 15 representatives from the companies' participants in previous USAID projects, 7 representatives from other donor organization and 6 representatives from various USAID projects. Forty of them participated with individual opinion and fifty took part on the brainstorming sessions. The objective of the brainstorming session was to generate a wide range of ideas for the improvement of the competitiveness of the private sector in Macedonia. Questionnaires with individual responses to six questions and eight working groups were used to gather the main ideas. These have provided 40 individual opinions. Our eight working groups generated another 177 ideas.