"In order to successfully move into the 21st century, we need to meet all of our UN Millennium Development Goals to reduce poverty, improve literacy rates and quality of life for all Rupians supported through national economic growth fueled by greater participation in the world economy."
• Improve social welfare program through the development of greater opportunities for the country’s youth using paid work incentives
• Introduce vocational training for the poor, especially for people below the poverty line
• Establish frameworks/research to understand the diversity among indigenous movements, their demands and their strategies, so that Indigenous groups can have an important part in political agendas and increase their representation in the government
• Establish bilingual intercultural education policies
• Promote economic opportunity through universal educational scheme and income redistribution
• Enact empowerment legislation that preserves equality for all regardless of its ethics, languages and colors
• Enhance security through welfare plans, starting from the minimal safety net which could be applied due to its state capacity
• Improve infrastructure in migrant neighborhoods in cities (Water, Streets, Housing, Schools, and Libraries)
• Reform pension system to more fully benefit the poor, especially persons in the informal sector and self-employed
• Establish a stronger social safety nets tuned to kick in automatically at times of economic crises like the recent one, and encourage programs like microcredit (extension of small loans to entrepreneurs too poor to qualify for traditional bank loans) by both public and private sector, including NGOs
• Reform Social Security to increase collecting social security tax
• Create a Rural Poverty Reduction Program that decentralizes decision making and provides financing to small-scale investments in basic infrastructure
• Promote Economic diversification, especially in plantation areas
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