ARKA News Agency, Armenia
Jan 11 2008

Public discussions on reviewed poverty reduction strategy to be held
in Yerevan on Jan 14

YEREVAN, January 11. /ARKA/. Public discussions on the reviewed
Poverty Reduction Strategy are to be held in Yerevan on January 14.
All interested parties are welcome to participate in the discussions,
the Press Service of Armenia’s Ministry of Finance and Economy
reported.

The Strategy working group is to have additional discussions of the
draft within the next month and then to submit it for discussion in
the Coordination Council of the Strategy.

According to the press release, the reviewed document is available at
People are welcome to send their suggestions and
comments if any. Discussions are to be held also in the country’s
regions shortly.

On August 8 2003 the Government of Armenia approved the Poverty
Reduction Strategy for 2003-2015 that needs to be reviewed today.

According to the Strategy, the Government of Armenia plans to
overcome the poverty by 2012.

Particularly, the poverty level in the country is to be brought down
to 11.2% of the number of population. The number of the extremely
poor is to be reduced down to 1.6% by 2012 against 4.6% in 2005. N.V.
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