We have seen an improvement in our export performance as a result of what we have done thus far and we must intensify that effort. We have seen an increase in businesses and in investment coming into this country because we are still able to be marketed as a country which is well-educated, flexible and has the ability to the use the technologies the modern multinational corporation networks now provide and which provide considerable and hugely important employment and, most importantly, bring in significant resources in tax revenues to our shores for the purposes of providing the services our people need.

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