Africa-Press – Senegal. The State has fulfilled 80% of its commitments for the implementation of the Emerging Senegal Plan (PSE) during the 2019-2023 period, we learned on Friday from the Director General of Planning and economic policies, Mouhamadou Bamba Diop.
“As I speak to you, according to our calculations, we are at an 80% rate of achievement of the commitments and objectives” of phase 2 of the PSE, said Mr. Diop during a meeting. of the Directorate General for Economic Planning and Policy (DGPPE) with civil society organisations.
For the DGPPE, the purpose of this meeting is to collect the “opinions and observations” of social society leaders for the development of phase 3 of the Emerging Senegal Plan.
This phase will be implemented from 2024 to 2028. The first took place from 2014 to 2018, and the second from 2019 to 2023.
According to Mouhamadou Bamba Diop, in detail, the achievement rate is 90% for axis 1 of the PSE, which is devoted to inclusive growth.
In the implementation of axes 2 and 3 of the PSE, dedicated respectively to human development and good governance, the execution rate is 84%, he added.
The investment expenditure of phase 2 of the PSE has been carried out at 82%, according to the director general of planning and economic policies.
The economic performance obtained by Senegal in the execution of the PSE, since its launch in 2014, allows the country to be able to prepare, from « next year », its « strategy of gradual exit from the category » of least developed countries (LDCs), according to Mr. Diop.
Senegal is preparing to leave the circle of LDCs to aspire to integrate those of emerging countries, « subject to the observations » which will be made on this subject by the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations, he announced in July. last.
The country was admitted as a least developed country in the early 2000s, based on a number of criteria, including a gross national product (GNP) per capita of less than US$900, life expectancy and literacy level.
The country’s per capita GNP was around $500 at the time, the school enrollment rate was among the worst in Africa, life expectancy at birth was 51 years for men and 54 for women. women.
According to a document seen by APS, 46 countries made up the list of LDCs in 2022, a group that Botswana, Cape Verde, Maldives, Samoa, Equatorial Guinea and Vanuatu have already left.
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