(GOVT. PRESS SECRETARIAT); Launched this week, the SAMOA 2040 Strategy “is a demonstration of Samoa’s maturity as a nation,” hails Prime Minister Tuilaepa Sailele Malielegaoi in his launching address.
“It lays out a platform to ensure the needs of present and future Samoan generations are met, and that no one is left behind,” continued the Prime Minister.
Added Tuilaepa, “Identifying the potential areas that can move Samoa to a higher growth trajectory is a central part of Samoa’s resilience building agenda. Samoa 2040 provides a roadmap to navigate Samoa’s development over the next twenty years.”
He noted that government is under no illusion that the future is an unknown an anything can happen. But if the reality significantly shifts away from the projections, Samoa also need to adjust her course but should never lose sight of the aspirational goal at the end of the tunnel.
SAMOA 2040 sets out opportunities – in tourism, agriculture and fishing, digital economy, and labour mobility – that have the potential to boost economic growth, create employment, generate government revenues and raise standards of living.
He stressed that no one can predict what will transpire next week, next month or next year will bring.
“However using the statistics and data available as well as our own experience over the past many years backed up by the development agenda we intend to implement going forward, we are in a better position to make plausible projections of where we want Samoa’s development to be, in twenty years’ time,” reiterated Tuilaepa.
That is the gist of Samoa 2040. It is a demonstration of Samoa’s maturity as a nation.
