This fourth review of the Growth and Social Protection Strategy (GSPS) 2014 – 2018 reaffirms Government’s commitment to the pursuit of Sustainable Development through sound policies geared at improving the quality of life of all Dominicans. Consistent with earlier editions, this 4th medium-term review promotes sustained economic growth as the main route to poverty reduction. The Government of the Commonwealth of Dominica remains its efforts to accomplish the following:
- - Sound fiscal policy and administrative reform, including creating an enabling environment for local private investment and the attraction of foreign direct investment;
- - Sectoral strategies for growth;
- - Strategies for poverty reduction and social protection
The plan also includes a monitor and evaluation system in which the Ministry of Finance (plannig authority) is in charge of coordinating. The set of indicators selected were suggested in the EU-sponsored Development of a Performance Assessment Framework (PAF).
Vision
"Leveraging all of the human, natural and financial resources available to the country, in order to realize the vision for Dominica as a place characterized by economic success and by the much-enhanced quality of life of its people, through their own empowerment, and through policies of Government geared to facilitating an environment within which private enterprise can flourish".