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Annex 2
Scottish Government Strategic Objectives:
- Wealthier and Fairer - enable businesses and people to increase their wealth and more people to share fairly in that wealth.
- Smarter - expand opportunities for Scots to succeed from nurture through to life long learning ensuring higher and more widely shared achievements.
- Healthier - Help people to sustain and improve their health, especially in disadvantaged communities, ensuring better, local and faster access to health care
- Safer and Stronger - Help local communities to flourish, becoming stronger, safer places to live, offering improved opportunities and a better quality of life.
- Greener - Improve Scotland's natural and built environment and the sustainable use and enjoyment of it.
Scottish Government Strategic Priorities:
- Learning, Skills and Well-being;
- Supportive Business Environment;
- Infrastructure Development and place;
- Effective Government; and
- Equity
Scottish Government Strategic targets:
By 2011:
- To raise the GDP growth rate to the UK level
- To reduce emissions over the period to 2011
In the longer term:
- To match the GDP growth rate of the small independent EU countries by 2017;
- To rank in the top quartile for productivity amongst our key trading partners in the OECD by 2017;
- To maintain our position on labour market participation as the top performing country in the UK and close the gap with the top 5 OECD economies by 2017;
- To match average European ( EU15) population growth over the period from 2007 to 2017, supported by increased healthy life expectancy in Scotland over this period;
- To increase overall income and the proportion of income earned by the three lowest income deciles as a group by 2017;
- To narrow the gap in participation between Scotland's best and worst performing regions by 2017;
- To reduce emissions by 80 per cent by 2050.
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