9: SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT Other Information:
A healthy and educated population is necessary to achieve sustainable economic growth. By building a healthy and educated
population as well as achieving economic growth, Malawi seeks to achieve and sustain Millennium Development Goals. Major economic
sectors of agriculture and industry require an educated, skilled and healthy workforce to take on new challenges and achieve
the goals of the sectors. The Strategy recognizes the interrelated nature of issues of education, health, population, HIV
and AIDS, nutrition and gender. These issues therefore have to be dealt with in a balanced manner, without neglecting any
one of them if Malawi is to achieve economic growth and development as well as achieve the MDGs. It is in this context that
this Strategy proposes to address these issues in a coherent manner under one theme of social development. However, considering
the impact that HIV and AIDS and malnutrition have on the economy, Government has placed these as key priorities for the short
to medium-term. As such these issues have been taken from this theme and are discussed under key priorities in Chapter 4.
The overall goal of this theme is to develop human capital for full participation in the socio-economic and political development
of the country.
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