Trend Growth opportunities are narrowing for regions outside the capital, small firms and low-income households

Summary

The government diagnoses that deepening polarisation is shutting regions outside the capital area, small and venture firms and working-class households out of growth opportunities and gains. It stresses that 49 percent of citizens live outside the capital region and 89 percent of workers are employed by small, medium and venture firms. Because these groups and vulnerable households have limited chances to join innovation and value creation, a shrinking growth base and widening polarisation feed each other. Concentrated infrastructure and investment in the capital region have widened productivity gaps, and quality jobs remain scarce while housing prices in the capital rise. The government warns that this cycle erodes economic participation and human capital accumulation.