In this context I am delighted that the subject of Earned Income Tax Credits is on the government's socioeconomic agenda and I hope that it will be implemented soon, along with the other subjects found on this important agenda. I will not elaborate today on the ways to integrate the poor into employment and to support those who cannot work.
For example, last year we became the first country in the Gulf to abolish the sponsorship system, thus allowing expatriate workers the freedom to change their employers for the first time.