DDCI - a tool to promote business climate improvement
The Department and District Competitiveness Index (DDCI) is designed to build a transparent business environment and promote administrative reform in a locality, heard a conference held in Bac Ninh city, the northern province of Bac Ninh on October 25.
Bac Ninh (VNA) – The Department and District Competitiveness Index(DDCI) is designed to build a transparent business environment and promoteadministrative reform in a locality, heard a conference held in Bac Ninh city,the northern province of Bac Ninh on October 25.
At the event, which was jointly held by the Bac Ninh Institute forSocio-Economic Development Studies and the Friedrich Naumann Foundation forFreedom, participants clarified the significance of DDCI in improving theProvincial Competitiveness Index (PCI) and shared experience in building andimplementing DDCI in Bac Ninh and Quang Ninh provinces.
Speaking at the conference, Vice Chairman of the provincial People’s CommitteeNguyen Tien Nhuong said that Bac Ninh always sees improving business climate asits priority mission to build a transparent administrative system to attractinvestment.
DDCI is a breakthrough tool to promote administrative reform, he added.
The index has been carried out in Quang Ninh, Bac Ninh, Thua Thien-Hue, and PhuYen provinces.
BacNinh province first implemented and announced the index in 2016. It helpsmeasure the efficiency of economic management of the local government through eightcriteria, including transparency, proactivity of leadership, time costs ofregulatory compliance, informal charges, policy bias, legal institutions,business support and accountability of the leader.-VNA
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At the conference (Photo: bacninh.gov.vn) 
