President Luis Abinader and Vice President Raquel Peña presented this Friday to the plenary session of the National Competitiveness Council (CNC) the prioritized plans for the period 2024-2024 within the initiative “Goal RD 2036. Through this plan, the Government seeks to increase the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) real of the country for the year 2036, with the objective of achieving development.
During the event at the National Palace, in which a lunch was also held, the businessmen They valued the initiative of the plan and committed to helping make it effective, while giving their recommendations to be analyzed by the Government.
The plan, which was explained by executive director of the CNC, Peter A Prazmowski, seeks to achieve full development of the country to benefit more people, generate more jobs and improve public services.
According to a press release from the Presidency, at the meeting, President Abinader explained that these statistics have been worked on for two years and have been monitored so that they can be fulfilled based also on the multi-year budget that has the Government until 2028.
He ruler He said that the objective of Goal 2036 is to identify all the actions that are sectoral, transversal, intersectoral of the second generation that will promote these determinants of growth. He gave as an example, the issue of zero hunger and pointed out: “If we achieve 50% of what we achieved in the period of the last four years, we achieved zero hunger“.
In that sense, he explained that the Government fell from 8.7 to 4.6 undernourishmentaccording to data from the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). “If we manage to lower two more points, which already below 2.5 is zero hunger. I want to tell you that all these statistics are based not on a wish, nor on a dream, but on a possible reality,” said the president.
When referring to the goal of formality of employmenthe ruler He stated that it is one of the most challenging, but work will be done to achieve it.
rate homicides
He pointed out that, this year, the homicide rate per 100,000 inhabitants is 9.6%, and he said he expects it to be less than 10 in 2028. “Those are goals that perfectly, that they can be achieved”.
In that order, he recalled the rate of homicides in the country in 2011, which was the peak, where 27 murders were recorded per 100 thousand inhabitants and currently shows progress, standing at 9.6%. Furthermore, he recalled that Dominican Republic It occupied a high place at that time with the exception of Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, and today the country ranks with the lowest in Central America and the Caribbean.
As regards the case of waterPresident Abinader stated that, in his first administration, it was increased by 9% to guarantee improvement in service to the population. He highlighted that half of those goals They are achieved with a single work, which is the Santo Domingo aqueduct through Hatillo, which is 10 cubic meters.
Youth training
Also, the ruler made a count of the educational centers techniques that the Dominican government is using for the youth training in the different areas where he mentioned the Technical Catholic University of Barahona, the ISA University, the Dajabón Technological Institute, the Loyola Technical Institute, among others.
He also highlighted the work carried out by the Loyola Polytechnic and referred to the expansion of the National Institute of Professional Technical Training (Infotep), of the Technological Institute of the Americas (ITLA); of the Autonomous University of Santo Domingo (UASD) and the polytechnics of the Ministry of Education in the Dominican Republic.
President Abinader also explained to the businessmen the significance of the Opportunity Program 14-24which aims to promote the reintegration to the educational system of adolescents between 14 and 17 years old, as well as the socioeconomic inclusion of young people between 18 and 24 in conditions of social vulnerability, through a comprehensive, collaborative and community approach to contribute to the reduction of multidimensional poverty.
He maintained that there are already more than 130 schools throughout the country in this program, the last graduation being last Saturday in Barahona, where almost 2,000 young people graduated. He also noted that the Community Technology Centers (CTC) are already being used to provide technical training courses.
For his part, Prazmowski explained each of the goals of the plan and spoke of a new model of productive development physical capitalhuman and productivity.
On the capital side, he highlighted the private investmentlocal, foreign direct, public infrastructure and what is the depreciation and congestion of capital. While, in the human capitalhighlighted the years of effective educationlife expectancy, formal participation, the labor force, population growth and immigration control. While, in the part of the productivityexplained the social climatepolitical and economic in the country “that has made enormous progress in institutionality.”
