We need not only to export high quality products acceptable to international markets, but what is required more is to create new markets. A well-developed exports policy should be laid down and meticulously implemented. What we need is to generate the quality of growth that would be felt by ordinary people. The Upper Egypt New Delta is a living example of how to go about doing that. Getting out of the old valley means not only better growth rates but improved living conditions as well.
Micro enterprises stand also another such example.
Projects financed by the Social Fund are also designed to improve the quality of growth. They seek to generate work opportunities to benefit the unemployed. Young people also get a chance to earn a good living. In an interview given to Al Ahram, Counsellor Abdel Ghafar El Dib of the Department of Sustainable Development at the Foreign Ministry talks about the regional coordination initiated to lay down a strategy for sustainable development in countries of the Mediterranean. At the Rabat meeting, environment protection priorities have been set which are not confined to questions of sea water pollution.