— improve macroeconomic governance, reforme the financial sector, strengthen the role of the private sector, enhance the business climate, in particular for SMEs, eliminate institutional, regulatory and administrative obstacles with a view to attract increasing national and foreign investments and to create job opportunities, consequently alleviating poverty, — boost industrial development and enterprises capabilities and competitiveness through improved skills, better access to finance, promotion of new technologies, encouraging entrepreneurship and innovation, and development of efficient business support services and increase labour-force productivity, — deepen and enhance the existing economic dialogue and identify areas suitable for gradual regulatory upgrading and approximation with EU technical legislation, standards and conformity assessment procedures, — proceed in reforming the tax system, improving public finance management, and upgrading public institutions, — promote south-south trade, through encouraging FDI participation in regional projects such as: infrastructure, trade facilitation, energy and transport, — strengthen cooperation on poverty reduction and social development, in particular in the areas of combating illiteracy, education reforms, upgrading the vocational training, training systems, quality assurance, as well as better socio-economic inclusion and social insurance and developing the health sector reform, with a particular focus on increasing the level of health security, health information and knowledge. Reforms of the education and higher education systems aim among other issues at enhancing overall quality and relevance to the labour market, — promote cooperation in the area of science and technology, develop national capabilities of technical, scientific and technological research and innovation, the development of R & D and transfer of technology, promote links in scientific research, strengthen efforts to implement the EU-Egypt Agreement on Scientific and Technological cooperation, strengthen links between higher research institutes and education institutions,