MUSCAT: Said bin Mohammed al Saqri, Minister of Economy, met yesterday with Dr Rola Dashti, Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), as part of the current visit program of the ESCWA delegation to the Sultanate of Oman.
During the meeting, areas of cooperation between the Ministry of Economy and ESCWA were discussed, including providing technical support for the "Governorates Development Index" project through the participation of ESCWA experts within the national technical team to participate in various stages of preparing the index and the platform for assessing the quality of work accomplished at each stage of the project. In addition, the meeting discussed the project to evaluate the mid-term of the tenth five-year development plan (2021-2025) through the analysis and documentation of results and achieved impacts according to the objectives and expected results in the plan document. The two sides also deliberated on the future direction in the remaining period of the tenth five-year plan, in addition to discussing providing a guiding framework for preparing the next five-year plan (2026-2030).
Work is also underway between the Ministry of Economy and ESCWA on building various economic models, including the computable general equilibrium model and the national version of the simulation interface for trade policies and global economic shocks. (ONA)
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