[Grenada] Government Launches war Against Poverty

From Klassica Granada

The Grenada government is promising to wage an all out war against poverty in the country.
During his presentation of the EC$611.8 million dollar budget on Friday, Finance Minister Anthony Boatswain said the alleviation of poverty and its ultimate eradication remains at the top of the government’s social development agenda.

Minister Boatswain added that a full fledged poverty eradication strategy paper will be elaborated in 2006, through a broad based consultative process.
This document, he says will aim at sharpening the focus and coherence of the poverty reduction initiatives, ensuring that scarce resources are directed to the most needy in the country.

More specifically, he says the poverty reduction strategy paper will seek to prioritize programmes and policies according to their desirability and social effectiveness, and also evaluate the effectiveness of existing poverty alleviation programmes.
The budget was read under the theme “Focusing on Youth Development, Poverty Reduction, Growth and Stability,” embraces three broad focus areas.

These are Housing, Youth and Agriculture.