Addressing the 15th annual general meeting of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) recently on the topic of Internal Logistics and Jamaica's competitiveness, Brewster attributed low productivity and slow productivity to high transport costs which act to cutback on company profit and national development goals.
"The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in its research publication on productivity edited by Carmen Pages notes that there is an umbilical connection between total factor productivity and transport costs within an economy," Brewster said.