President Piñera receives the proposals for the National Agreement for Comprehensive Development
The more than 100 initiatives are designed to promote the creation of quality jobs, reduce poverty, protect the middle class, modernize the State, seek more and better investment and boost productivity. This is the fourth of the President’s five round tables on major agreements to submit their proposals.
This Monday, President Sebastián Piñera received proposals for the National Agreement for Comprehensive Development, a cross-disciplinary round table convened by the President in May to provide solutions for boosting growth and progress in Chile.
“We want to bring the people of Chile together behind a great, noble, demanding, yet feasible cause: making Chile a developed country by the end of the next decade. Our goal is to achieve comprehensive, inclusive, sustainable development in all areas of human endeavor and that will reach every family,” said the President, following a meeting with round table members and Treasury Minister Felipe Larraín at La Moneda Palace.
Proposal highlights include: the creation of quality jobs by drafting public policy to address technological change, the reformulation of the national training system, the promotion of greater coordination between the private sector and high schools, professional institutions and technical training centers.
Another key issue is reducing poverty and protecting the middle class. Priority will be given to the most vulnerable social groups (homes with small children, young people who neither study nor work, senior citizens and people with disabilities). The numerous current social programs will be reorganized into a limited group of macroprograms.
Another objective is to attract more and better investment by creating a modern tax structure, comprehensive reform to the Environmental Impact Assessment system and creating a regional investment policy that contributes to decentralization.
The proposals for modernizing the State include implementing ongoing assessment, improvement and simplification of State regulations and improving data management by creating an integrated data system.
“We need the idea of a shared mission, national unity and to understand that each person with his or her own vision and strength needs to row in the same direction so that Chile can move forward,” said President Piñera.
The President has already received proposals from four of the five round tables created to reach major national agreements on: childhood, public safety, peace and development in the Araucanía region, comprehensive development and healthcare.
- A list of the proposals is available here