Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Mr Government: Stay out please....

I am not sure if I understand why ministers in Iran are not serious people! Let me explain. If you follow what they say, in most cases, it is almost impossible to take them seriously. For instance, the Minister for Industry and Mines advised car makers in Iran that " try to export your products". In view of " massive investment" in this industry, the government and people have " a special expectation"- in terms of increasing exports and acquiring new markets. So far, this is fine, but the Minister must know, that exports would not increase by decree from this or any other governments. Your product must have certain advantages to be demanded or wanted by global consumers. It may be price, or it may be better quality, or a combination of both. In the case of Iranian cars, let us be honest about it, these cars can not compete with cars available in the world market. From what one reads in the press, these are not reliable, and not fuel efficient and furthermore, they are pricy- given these attributes, quite expensive. Apart from these reports in the press, the reaction of Iranian consumers is my evidence for this, i.e. whenever they can, they prefer not to buy the local produce. At one level, in a shortage economy like Iran, paying lip service to quality may be expected, but, at the same time, if Iran is to move out of its current economic mess, there in no other way. The quality of what is produced here must improve. There must be specific programmes and political will to improve quality. Given what has happened in Iranian economy in the past 50 years, if not longer, could I say, Mr Government, could you please stay out of this!
I shall express my views on what should be done in other posts, for the time being, thank you for reading this piece. What do you think?

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home