Yemen, UN agreed on upgrading economic promising sectors

SANA'A, Aug. 20 (Saba) -
The government has agreed with the United Nations (UN) on carrying out a
comprehensive program
for economic diversity and upgrading the promising sectors.
Deputy Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Hisham Sharaf told the
weekly 26 September the agreement signed last Wednesday in Sana'a with a UN
Development
Program (UNDP) would be followed by practical procedures to promote the economic
promising sectors.
The program that cost $ 13 million would promote the sectors of agriculture,
tourism, fishery and industry, Sharaf said.
The program, the first of its kind as Sharaf said, would be implemented by the
concerned ministries under the supervision of the ministers themselves.
The program will assist in setting up and applying policies and strategies to
create new sustainable job opportunities in such sectors.
A statement issued by the UN said that the program will prop up the government's
efforts to create investment environment capable to strengthen the private sector
and provide
job opportunities to increase the people's income.
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