{"id":62,"date":"2016-09-22T02:40:08","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T02:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2016-09-22T02:40:08","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T02:40:08","slug":"at-un-namibian-president-vows-to-spare-no-effort-to-lift-nations-people-out-of-poverty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/2016\/09\/22\/at-un-namibian-president-vows-to-spare-no-effort-to-lift-nations-people-out-of-poverty\/","title":{"rendered":"At UN, Namibian President vows to \u2018spare no effort\u2019 to lift nation\u2019s people out of poverty"},"content":{"rendered":"
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21 September 2016 \u2013 Speaking from the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, Hage Geingob, the President of Namibia, recalled last year\u2019s commitment by UN Member States to a new agenda for\u00a0Sustainable Development<\/a>\u00a0to \u201cjoin the global drive towards ensuring a life of dignity for all.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all in agreement that effective implementation of this agenda will require coherence and complementarity between global, continental, regional, national and local efforts,\u201d he\u00a0said<\/a>, citing his confidence that \u201cwe will spare no effort in working to free our fellow men, women and children from the abject and dehumanizing conditions of extreme poverty.\u201d<\/p>\n

Namibia agreed with the notion that the\u00a02030 Agenda<\/a>, the successor of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs<\/a>), would need, among other things, to integrate economic growth, he said.\u00a0\u201cWe need to talk about inclusive growth that will translate into creation of decent job opportunities for our citizens,\u201d Mr. Geingob continued. \u201cIn other words, we must do more to move away from the current jobless growth model that prevails in many of our member countries [and] aim to grow our economy in a sustainable and inclusive manner in order to ensure that we effectively tackle the scourge of poverty.\u201d\u00a0As a consequence of the slowdown in the global economic cycle, and a fall in commodity prices, the Namibian economy is experiencing a downturn in 2016, following robust growth averaging more than five per cent during the preceding five years.\u00a0\u201cWe are mindful that in order to make a meaningful dent in poverty, we need to grow at a higher level,\u201d underscored the President, who expressed optimism about the country\u2019s long-term outlook as the key economic fundamentals.President Geingob said his Government remains committed to managing the economy in a prudent and responsible manner, and has already instituted expenditure, revenue and structural reform measures to address concerns raised by rating agencies about the long-term outlook of Namibia.\u00a0\u201cWe would like to assure all our partners, that there is no risk that Namibia will not honour debt obligation in the near and medium term. In fact, we remain bullish about the country\u2019s economic outlook,\u201d said Mr. Geingob. \u201cMoreover, we remain committed to creating conditions in Namibia that will enable full participation of the private sector in the economy.\u201d\u00a0He went on to say that Government alone could not shoulder the burden of extending development to all, underscoring the private sector\u2019s crucial role in stimulating economic growth and job creation in the country.\u00a0Mr. Geingob ended his address saying that despite the fact that humanity is facing some of the most unprecedented challenges in its history, he is confident that under the United Nations, Namibia would live up to the promise of ensuring a life of dignity for all.\u00a0\u201cLet us celebrate unity in diversity. Together as people, who realize that we belong to each other, we can bring about change in this world, through this indispensable institution the United Nations and usher in a new era of humanity, characterized by peace, unity and dignity for all the world\u2019s citizens,\u201d he concluded.\u00a0President Geingob is among the many leaders who will address the general debate of 71st General Assembly. The Assembly’s high-level segment opened this year with the adoption Monday of the\u00a0New York Declaration<\/a>\u00a0as the outcome of the first-ever\u00a0UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants<\/a>. Made up of all the 193 Member States of the United Nations, the Assembly provides a forum for multilateral discussion of international issues covered by the UN Charter.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

21 September 2016 \u2013 Speaking from the podium of the United Nations General Assembly, Hage Geingob, the President of Namibia, recalled last year\u2019s commitment by UN Member States to a new agenda for\u00a0Sustainable Development\u00a0to \u201cjoin the global drive towards ensuring a life of dignity for all.\u201d \u201cWe are all in agreement that effective implementation of this agenda will require coherence… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/subsaharanafricablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}