South Africa wants to establish itself in the arena of global outsourcing and in order to make that possible the Department of Trade and Industry of South Africa has launched an incentive programme for BPOs. The programme is called Government Assistance and Support Programme and is aimed at handling incidents of red tape causing suffering for both the existing and new BPO players in the country.
The programme is meant to ensure easy entry in the country for BPO players, marketing, simple administrative procedures, skill development and other investment incentives. The programme would also be targeting marketing aimed at identification of high impact foreign investors for spurring the interest of investors.
This step is expected to go a long way in achieving the government’s goal of reduction of unemployment by half in 2014 and it is expected that this sector would lead to the creation of 1,00,000 direct and indirect jobs by 2009. It seems that the South African government is surely making whole hearted effort for bringing its country on the global map of outsourcing.
Via businessafrica
