2.4% Targeted Growth Rate To Provide Jobs: Ministry

Ahmed Al Sayad, advisory to the minister of investment, said the state aims at achieving 2.4% growth rates in 2012, and rates ranges between 4% and 4.5% in the next  fiscal year. This would be through increasing the investments volume which that contribute to providing the job opportunities that  lessen the unemployment rates, which recorded 12.6%, an which expected to reach 13% by the end of the fiscal year.       
On the sidelines of Second Regional Forum for medical insurance and care, Ahmed Al Sayyad explained that the state is working at the present time on building “New Egypt’, in which the demanded social and economic justice could be achieved; referring to the role of the insurance companies in reviving the health care market.   
Al Sayyad showed a number of indicators, the mos prominent is the average age of individual 24, while in the US rises to 27, 35 in China. He referred that 43% of population range between 20-50 years, while under 20 reaches 40%.