Egypt’s newly appointed Prime Minister, Mostafa Madbouly, pledged on Tuesday to enhance living standards as part of a strategy to limit the level of poverty and to increase social protection measures for poor Egyptians.
“We will not leave any person poor,” the PM said as he presented the new cabinet’s policy statement before parliament in a plenary session.
According to official data, about 30 million Egyptians (representing 28 percent of the total population) were living below the poverty line until 2015.
“The basic mandate entrusted by the president to the government is to work on helping impoverished classes in order to get profits from the results of the economic reform program within two years,” Madbouly said.
Egypt has accomplished several projects adopted by the previous governments in the framework of an economic reform program launched a few years ago.
Madbouly reassured Egyptians that the difficult measures taken lately by the previous government would bare their fruits in the near future, adding that 85 percent of the economic reform has been accomplished since 2016.
The PM said Egypt aims to raise the efficiency of the government’s performance and improve the management of public finances.
Madbouly named his government’s policy statement “Misr Tantaleq” (Egypt kicks off), in reference to the coming stage after the full implementation of several development projects.
The document has five key pillars including national security and foreign policy, economic development and boosting the government’s performance, increasing employment opportunities and enhancing living standards.
