Introduction
Today’s column comes at the point where I am left only to discuss the export performance of the extractive forest sub-sector over the last decade (2006-2015). This will conclude my discussion of the microeconomic performance of the sector. This discussion is designed to determine whether this performance conforms to that indicated in the sector’s macroeconomic/national accounts assessment over the same period. Further, readers should recall that, thus far I have examined both ‘employment’ and ‘production’ of forest products as part of the microeconomic assessment. The information on these two conforms to the significant underperformance of the sector, as revealed in the macroeconomic/national accounts assessment.