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San José, December 6th (EFE).- The Costa Rican government presented this Tuesday the National Development and Public Investment Plan 2023-2026, which will focus on seven main areas: Economic Growth, Public Debt, Unemployment, Poverty, Inequality, Citizens security and decarbonization.
The authorities reported that the plan rests on two transversal pillars: the first, a strategy of integrity and a frontal fight against corruption, which will tackle this scourge of public services from the ground up, applying the best standards and recommendations of the OECD , and the second, open government as a commitment to transparency and access to public information.
“This plan calls on us to take action to purge the state apparatus of the corruption that is shamefully slowing down the country’s development. May the public function regain the pride of a transparent administration, practiced ethically and at the service of the citizens!” affirmed the President of Costa Rica, Rodrigo Chaves, in the presentation.
The plan consists of seven national goals, 239 sectoral goals spread across 13 sectors, all aligned with the National Strategic Plan 2050. It is the government’s medium and long-term vision and is linked to various international commitments such as the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations.
Targets include reducing poverty from the current 23% to 19.5%, unemployment from 13.6% to 9.5%, inequality from 0.509 to 0.493 in the Gini coefficient and reducing homicides.
The plan also aims to reduce public debt and keep economic growth above 3% per year, and also aims for a gradual reduction in greenhouse gas emissions into the environment based on the implementation of public policies that contribute to the goal of the energy transition.
“A high percentage of the objectives of this plan are gender-sensitive, and a large proportion of its objectives and public interventions – understood as plans, programs or projects with a high national impact – are also regionally disaggregated. This is a historic milestone in a Plan Development program in strategic development sectors that have a major impact on people’s quality of life,” said Planning Minister Laura Fernández.
The plan also includes a roadmap with 132 public interventions corresponding to programs or projects with a high impact on national development to be executed with a budget estimate of the plan corresponding to an average of 12.7% of nominal GDP per year over the 2023-2026 period .
“The plan is subject to semi-annual monitoring and annual assessment by the Ministry of National Planning and Economic Policies, and a range of strategic interventions will be assessed as part of the national assessment agenda that the Ministry will conduct throughout the government,” said the Deputy Minister for National Planning and Economic Policy Economic Policy, Marlon Navarro. EFE
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