Provinces’ competitiveness defined

On Wednesday, the 11th competitiveness report of provinces came out from the Economic Policy and Competitiveness Research Center. The competitiveness report for the 21 provinces is made of four main criteria, such as economic strength, governance and economic benefit and infrastructure, and 174 sub-criteria. In 2022, Dornogobi came in first and Orkhon, Darkhan-Uul, Umnugobi, and Gobisumber followed behind. However, Bulgan, Zavkhan and Dundgobi ranked 19 to 21. In 2021, Dornogobi came in first and although last year the point for organizational economic benefit lowered, the points for governance, economic strength and infrastructure rose. Moreover, it created more jobs, income of the trade sector rose and the area for agriculture increased. However, in Dundgobi, there were many negative indications such as the governance efficiency was low, increased bureaucracy in the public service, labor productivity, dropped quality of life, and the lack of skilled manpower.

Director of Economic Policy and Competitiveness Research Center B.Lakshmi mentioned, general scores of Bulgan, Gobi-Altai, and Zavkhan provinces rose while Khovd, Uvs, and Bayan-Ulgii provinces dropped. The reason behind it was the bad environment and low efficiency of businesses, bad management of technological infrastructure and increased tax evasion in provinces. Moreover, for the provinces that ranked last, the economic benefit per person is low, increased budget expenditure, low number of private enterprises, and extremely low development of infrastructure and construction sectors, informs the Economic Policy and Competitiveness Research Center.