The economy also has many positive aspects. It has also shown itself to be flexible in the past and should be able to adapt to adverse developments, if they were to occur.
Regionally, the program targets to achieve six out of the eight Millennium Development Goals targeting reduced poverty and hunger by half by the year 2015; promoting gender equality and empowering women through integrating gender issues in their projects, reducing child mortality, ensuring environmental sustainability and developing a Global Partnership for Development.