HAVANA, Cuba, May 5 (acn) Jorge Mattar, director of the Latin American and Caribbean Institute for Economic and Social Planning, said in this city that the shift to a dignified life in the region is possible.
Speaking at the opening session of the International Course Strategic Foresight and Public Policies for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, he stressed that to achieve this it is necessary to foster a policy to promote structural change and break with the crossroads of centuries of economic and social backwardness.
The scenario is conducive largely thanks to the social policies implemented by many States, he said in his keynote speech.
Mattar stressed the importance of foresight to break the inertia and shape the future of prosperity dreamed for Latin America and the Caribbean with sovereignty, independence and sustainability.
Cuba, he said, aspires to a higher status of development without renouncing its principles or essence, and the Guidelines for Economic and Social Policy (of the Communist Party of Cuba and the Revolution) show the course of that process.
In his lecture Effects of global mega-trends in Latin America and the Caribbean: Implications for a long-term development agenda, Máttar explained how planning systems that were dismantled in the 90s are being rebuilt today.
People begin to longer term think with broad, holistic and complex vision of development, and the role of government and public administration is appreciated, he added.
The International Course Strategic Foresight and Public Policy for Development in Latin America and the Caribbean, attended by over 50 experts from 12 countries, opened yesterday in Havana with the presence of Marino Murillo, vice president of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Economy and Planning.
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