Vision 2035 in US show

WASHINGTON, Oct 19, (KUNA): The World Bank hosted a presentation on the New Kuwait Vision 2035 in collaboration with Kuwait’s General Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development (GSSCPD).

In an exclusive interview with KUNA on the sidelines of the presentation, GSSCPD Secretary General Dr Khaled Mahdi shed light on the General Secretariat’s participation in the World Bank meetings, saying it included many components, such as the project recently signed with the WB on the labor market and creation of the national jobs strategy for the country.

He added that they also discussed the launch of the human capital plan, saying “Kuwait is one of the early adopters of the human capital index that came from our interest to look at the quality of investment in the human capital in the country and how it can be reflected in the global competitiveness of Kuwait.”

Mahdi further noted that the Women Business and Law (WBL) index was also discussed “with regard to the gender balance,” as well as the “country engagement frame (program of the WB), in which “we emphasized that this coming engagement of the World Bank in Kuwait for the cycle 2020-2024 should be aligned with the Kuwait Vision 2035 and should be also aligned with the Kuwait National Development Plan (KNDP) III 20202025.

“We agreed on the importance of the alliance of all the WB activities with the national plan which to us is considered a crucial and very important step,” he affirmed.

For his part, World Bank’s Regional Director of GCC Countries Issam Abousleiman told KUNA that the 2035 vision is “a very credible ambitious vision that will be a big game changer for Kuwait.”