Thematic Dialogue on Environmental Sustainability and Green Industry, Inclusive Growth and Prosperity and Financing for Sustainable Economic Development

1. Challenges to Sustainable Development
and International Cooperation in
Middle-Income Countries
The Role of Networks for Prosperity

2. National Development plan
Plan for good living

3. Growth and Redistribution
• Generate wealth and achieve equality in the society
at the same time.
• The economy has grown. Wealth has increased. It is
an ethical responsibility to promote its distribution
and redistribution.

4. Growth of GDP in 2011 (%)
• third largest
economic growth in Latin
America.
•doubled the regional
average.

5. Ratio of Income between
the Rich and Poor
Tax Collection and
Tributary Pressure
•tax collection has doubled
•Now the ones who have more pay more.

6. Evolution of Oil Extraction
• Recover of the state extraction of crude oil and the participation
of the State in the oil income.
•Due to the renegotiation of contracts, the State receives an additional US$ 46 million
for each one-dollar increase in the barrel price.

7. Productive Transformation
• Ecuador is on the way to achieve productive transformation to
ensure economic and environmental sustainability.
• The energy mix has started to change. Need to increase the
importance of the industry in the economy.
• It is necessary to produce knowledge and to transfer technology
to generate added value in the exportable offer; to develop the
internal market and to encourage economic integration - all within
the biophysical limits of nature.
• Tourism is a force of change.

8. Energy mix Productive structure
• The productive mix has to bee modified.
• The industrial share remained at 14 %.

9. Productive structure
• The specialization pattern has not been modified.
• The share of primary exports has maintained, on
average, at 76 %.

10. Optic Fiber Implementation and
Internet Access

11. Gini Coefficient of Land at National Level
• Land concentration is still high.
• 5% of owners account for 52% of agricultural land.
• 60% of small owners account for 6.4% of the land.

12. Protected Areas

13. Environmental Quality
• The percentage of urban households using toilet and sewage
system rose from 71% to 78% between 2006 and 2010.
• The percentage of rural households with access to waste
collection rose from 22% to 37%.

14. Increase in the Purchasing Capacity

15. Human Development Index
• Out of 187 countries, Ecuador ranks 83.
• Between 2007 and 2011, Ecuador rose 6 positions in the ranking of the HDI.

16. Drop of Poverty by Income (%)
• In five years of government, the poverty dropped 9 percentage points.
• About 650 thousand Ecuadorians were lifted out of poverty in 2011.

17. Drop of Poverty by Income (%)
• Between 2006 and 2010, the poverty of the Afro-Ecuadorian population
fell by 15 percentage points.
• The poverty reduction among the indigenous population was of 5
percentage points.

18. Coverage Basic and Middle Education

19. The Great Challenge is to Improve the
Quality of Education and Health
• Ecuador has taken steps to improve the quality of
education: evaluation, training, merit-based competition
and improvement in the labor conditions of teachers.
• Students assessment.
• Quality infrastructure (e.g. millennium schools).
• New Unified Bachillerato (school leaving examination).
• In health, the challenge is to develop an evaluation
system that assesses the quality of the services.

20. Higher Education
• Ecuador wants to offer higher education of excellence that promotes
the quality at all levels of the educational system and presents the
development generator of the country.
• The investment in science an technology was doubled.
• The universities were evaluated.
• New Constitutional Law of Higher Education.
• The new institutions of the system are working for the
transformation of higher education.
• Nevertheless, it could advance more quickly.
• The conditions are already given; Ecuador must accelerate the
process of change.

21. Net Registration Rate in
Higher Education
• The new Constitution states that public higher education is free.
• More young people are studying now at university.

22. Objectives
• Ecuador is committed to overcome conditions of inequality and
exclusion, with an appropriate distribution of wealth, without
any discrimination on grounds of gender, ethnicity, social level,
religion, sexual orientation or place of origin.
• Ecuador wants to build a sustainable future shared with all
Ecuadorians.
• Ecuador wants to achieve „el Buen Vivir“.

23. Dignified Work for all Men and Women
Roughly 40,000 people engaged in domestic service receive a
fair wage and are affiliated to the Social Security Institute.

24. Ecuadorians have seen their quality of life improve
thanks to a fair wage system
The purchasing power of Ecuadorian men and women has
improved substantially. From 2006 to 2011, coverage of the
basic food basket has increased by 22%.

25. Education to change the history of
previously neglected groups
In the last four years, enrollment atthe country‘s universities
by indigenous and Afro-Ecuadorian citizens has doubled.

26. Industry continues to grow
The industrial base is growing steadily through sales, which
increased by 56% from 2006 to 2010.

27. A Record in Public Investment and Efficiency
• Investment increased by
132% over the three
previous governments,
indicating greater
efficiency in execution.
• Red tape has been
removed and new
procedures have been set
forth in the Code of
Planning and Public
Finance.

28. Support for Small and Medium-Scale Entrepreneurs for the
Sustainable Growth of the Country
The Government of the Citizens‘ Revolution prioritizes small and medium-
scale entrepreneurs.
Public procurement is an instrument that invigorates the country‘s
economy.

29. Better Quality of Life for
Priority Attention Groups
Ecuador values local production that is culturally appropriate for the most
vulnerable population groups. One point three million food rations were
handed out in the 2007-2010 period.

30. Thank you for your
attention!