The onestop shop, as they call it. And the government above and beyond that is setting up a fund, a guarantee fund to assist these small and Mediumsized Enterprises of the private sector to get going and to grow strong this guarantee fund, we hope, that will help the young particularly who are entrepreneurs who have something to give, who are interested in doing something to get the necessary loans from lending institutions under the overall guarantee fund that the government is now offering to that end. Let me say a word about our external partners. The borders of republic of congo are wide open, and we have seen how Business Partners have come to us from very far away, as far away as australia, certainly europe, the United States and are active in various sectors of our economy, and we are all in favor of that. Were very pleased to see it because this will spur the development of our smes, but also, certainly, will redound to the benefit of our Larger Companies and the sectors of oil
Able to create value and innovation and cultures that encourage growth, and i think african entrepreneurs are going fore the trendsetters determining how societies think about themselves and ultimately aboutvernments think these issues. The truth of the matter is that if you have big successful companies, where you have and eighturship middle class and practices have been established in terms of fair deals and treating your workers properly and extending contractorsto small and promoting women and making sure that women are paid like , and suddenly what happens is is is is create new norms is businesses create new norms and sensibilities, and governments oftentimes will respond. Would like to i see more and more of is partnerships between american businesses, between african businesses. Some of the incredible cultures of some of our u. S. Businesses that do a really good job promoting people and maintaining america maintaining a meritocracy and treating women equally and treating peopl
Nations. The solution we have been things into, like all you have mentioned, designing an economy used to be thought of as a bad thing. Making industrial policy and all that. Ive been trying very hard in my travels in emerging nations to use singapore, thailand, a few other countries that have andnced their economies generations get. You will not have to go through the learning curve that the u. S. And industrialized nations of a hundred years ago. You can avoid the pollution and create supply chains. Instead of being a raw material exporter, which is where you start first, American Companies are the type that we, especially , we bring value chains, training, and technology through local partnerships. We preferred the local partial model. I am australia, i had a vision of doing it in asia. We have 86 joint ventures around the world. This whole notion of going local and then creating clusters around advanced manufacturing needs to be brought to a nationstate. If it never creates regiona