Fifty-seven of the National Development Strategy (END) 2030 objectives have been analyzed in a report by the Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development, and will not meet the goals programmed for 2015.
The second annual progress report on the implementation of the National Development Strategy, delivered to the Economic and Social Council, found that 17 indicators had met their goals for 2015 in 2013, and 23 have improved “and look promising” and have high probabilities of reaching what was programmed for next year.
This is to say that only 40 are expected to meet their goals.
On the other hand, the study establishes that 18 indicators have gone backwards, 32 have improved “moderately” with low possibilities of reaching the goal for 2015, and seven indicators are stalled.
In percentages, the number one focus, a social and democratic State, was the one which obtained the worst grades in the publication, where 45% of the indicators are stalled or going backwards, and only 36% show some improvement, which includes moderate improvements, meaning that in any case they will not meet the goal for 2015.
The central idea that shows the greatest improvement (68%) is the second focus, of a society with equal rights and opportunities. Regarding the third area which covers a sustainable, integrated and competitive economy, 48% of the indicators improved, and in the fourth area, a society of environmentally sustainable production and consumption, 50% of the indicators show some improvement, and for the other 50% they did not have up to date information for 2013.
The indicators in which the country has gone backwards include the rate of perception of corruption n with measurements by Transparency International n, the level of state subsidy to the electricity sector, the cash recovery rate in the electricity sector, and the percentage share of exports in world exports and manufacturing and farm products.
The percentage of the rural population below the moderate poverty line has also become worse, as has the death rate linked to dengue, the malnutrition rate in children under the age of five and the gap between female and male unemployment rates. The net registration rate at higher education level also shows regressions for 2015.
The report stresses that the public policies adopted during 2013 were linked to the lines of action of the END between 42.3% and 47.6% depending on which area was studied.