Minister of Planning and Local Development on the occasion of African plenary on national strategies for poverty reduction and the implementation of the millennium development goals: the second generation
His Excellency, Mr. Osman Mohammed Osman, Egypt's Minister of Planning and Local Development, emphasized the importance of anchoring the MDGs in national development strategies and accelerating growth to reduce poverty and achieve the MDGs. He noted that Egypt's growth rate in excess of 5 percent, since 2004, had enabled the government to generate 750 thousand jobs per year, undertake ambitious safety nets for the poor and to subsidize energy and food items in the order of 40 and 30 billion Egyptian pounds, respectively, per annum. He added that unemployment is expected to decline from 9.6 per cent to 5 per cent by 2012 because of the nation's robust growth. Notable MDG successes achieved by Egypt include gender parity in access to secondary and tertiary education, improved urban access to water, and a decline in the percentage of population living on less than a dollar a day. He observed that the key to Egypt's success in the area of development has been to include the poor as major participants in, and beneficiaries of, a new social contract between the Egyptian government and its citizens.
| Format: | Speech biblioteca |
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| Language: | eng |
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2006-03
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10855/31227 |
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