Venezuela Launches Economic Council, Expands Schooling Program
Venezuela Launches Economic Council, Expands Schooling Program
Published 18 January 2016 (3 hours 11 minutes ago)
Venezuela's government has vowed to bolster the economy while improving popular social programs.
Venezuela launched an initiative Monday aimed at developing policy to tackle the country's economic downturn.
The newly inaugurated National Council of the Productive Economy includes Vice President Aristobulo Isturiz and Vice President for the Economy Luis Salas. The first session of the council will include input from state and local governments.
The council will work on creating a “productive map … to attend to real needs,” President Nicolas Maduro said Friday.
He said the main aim of the council would be to find way to generate foreign currency income in the face of falling oil prices – currently Venezuela’s main source of income. Maduro called for structures that would allow varies stages and parts of the industrial and productive processes that currently or previously depended on imports, to be substituted.
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