CAIRO Cheap Jerseys Free Shipping , Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's sharp rise in globalcompetitiveness ranking is the fruit of its economic reform,Egyptian Minister of Investment and International Cooperation SaharNasr said Thursday.
Addressing the opening session of the Middle East work group oninvestment held in Paris by the Organization for EconomicCooperation and Development (OECD), Nasr said Egypt jumped 15notches in the 2017-2018 Global Competitiveness Report of the WorldEconomic Forum, the Ministry of Investment and InternationalCooperation said in a statement.
Nasr also said that Egypt's ranking in the report'sinfrastructure index climbed by 25 places as a result of PresidentAbdel-Fattah al-Sisi's vision that focuses on building megainfrastructure projects, including the Suez Canal Axis developmentproject and new administrative capital.
Nasr attributed the rise in Egypt's competitiveness Cheap Jerseys From China , the biggestby Arab countries in the report, to the ongoing economic reform andEgypt's efforts to improve the legislative and institutionalframework of its investment environment.
Over the past years, Egypt has been suffering from an economicrecession due to political instability and security issues that ledto the decline of tourism, foreign currency reserves and foreigninvestment.
The Egyptian government started last year a strict three-yeareconomic reform program, including the introduction of a fullcurrency floating to tackle a shortage of foreign reserves Cheap Jerseys China , inaddition to implementing austerity measures, fuel subsidy cuts andtax increases.
Egypt's reform program is supported by a 12-billion-U.S. dollarloan from the International Monetary Fund, a third of which hasalready been delivered to Egypt in two tranches in November 2016and July 2017.
Egypt is also about to issue a final version of a long-awaitedinvestment law that is expected to facilitate business startups andlure foreign investors. Enditem
AMMAN, March 9 (Xinhua) -- Jordanian Prime Minister Hani Mulki on Thursday called for more support from the World Bank to Jordan, the state-run Petra news agency reported.
Mulki made the remarks at a meeting with World Bank's vice president for the Middle East and North Africa, Hafez Ghanem, where he said Jordan is seeking more technical and financial support for the government's development programs and reform efforts.
The premiere said that his government values the reform of the public sector and enhancement of firm governance against bureaucracy.
He added that the government is also promoting public private partnerships to implement several projects.
The Jordanian government is upgrading the education sector and is focused on vocational training to meet labor market needs.
The World Bank official said that the bank is keen on enhancing its partnership with Jordan.
He also commended the partnership between the public and the private sectors in the country.
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A lawmaker suggested at the ongoing session of the National People's Congress that the country should cancel English in the national college entrance examinations, or gaokao, as primary and middle school students have to spend too much time on it.
Li Guangyu Cheap Jerseys , director of Yuhua Education Group, proposed that China should cancel English test in gaokao and change it from a compulsory course to an optional one, k618, a news portal run by the Communist Youth League Central Committee, reported on Sunday.
Based in Zhengzhou Wholesale Basketball Jerseys , Henan Province, the education group claims on its official website that it is the country's largest private education group owning 25 prestigious primary schools, high schools and universities, with nearly 50,000 students.
Li said that students in primary and high schools spend too much time on learning English.
"Based on the calculation that every student spends eight hours on study Wholesale Nike NBA Jerseys , nearly one-fifth of their most beautiful 10 years will be spent on English," Li noted.
Moreover, Li said that statistics from the Ministry of education showed that China has over 163 million primary and high school students. If each student on average spends 1,000 yuan ($145) on studying English, it would cost 163 billion yuan Wholesale NBA Jerseys , Li added.
However, the budget for launching a Shenzhou spacecraft is about 800 million yuan. Therefore, the money Chinese students spend on studying English annually is equal to launching 204 Shenzhou spacecrafts, Li estimated.
His proposal has triggered heated debates online.
Yu Minhong, a national political advisor and chairman of New Oriental Education and Technology Group Inc Wholesale Jerseys Free Shipping , said that "it will be a rushed, even reckless, decision to cancel the English test" as learning English is no longer something decided by a country, but a necessity for China's globalization."
Yu told the China Youth Daily that even in countries in Europe or in the US, students still need to take a second language test Wholesale Jerseys China , which means that "the world is not isolated anymore and learning English is good for students."
Yu suggested that the country could lower the difficulty of English test instead of canceling it.
In 2013, the Beijing education commission released a draft to gather public opinion in which the grade of the English test was cut from 150 to 100 while that of the Chinese test was raised to 180 from the original 150.
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