Africa-Press – Angola. The country should create about 18 million new jobs to reduce, from 30% to 20%, the unemployment rate by 2050, said in Luanda, the Secretary of State for Planning, Milton Reis.
Speaking during a public consultation with International Organizations, Development Agencies and Diplomatic Missions, to finalize the process of Revision and Extension of the Long Term Strategy (ELP) 2025 to 2050 (ELP – Angola 2050), he underlined that it is a “great” challenge to reduce one-third the unemployment rate.
“If it were up to us, we would like to have a rate below 5%, but with the demographic explosion that the country is going to witness, we are foreseeing that it will be challenging to reach that rate reduction”, he said.
He added that the ELP plans to include English in the primary education curriculum.
Milton Reis said that the strong investment in infrastructures will allow harmonious development, because it will make the services available in other parts of the country, without existing flow in big cities.
The Long-Term Strategy is the basic tool for the elaboration of the National Development Plan (PDN), which presents the country’s long-term strategic development options, being elaborated based on analysis of scenarios, for the national, sectoral and territorial.
The Long-Term Strategy – Angola 2050 is a bifocal plan, with a clear vision of what is intended for the country in the future, but clearly and decisively articulating the short-term initiatives that ensure the right direction.
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