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The main objective of the government's Tenth Five Year Plan (2008-2013) is poverty reduction with an aim to reduce the poverty rate to less than 15% by 2013. The government also aims to achieve an average annual GDP growth rate of 9% during the plan period. Closely aligned with the Tenth Five Year Plan, the overarching goal of ADB's forthcoming interim Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) 2012-2013 for Bhutan will be poverty reduction through economic diversification, which has been adopted from ... Read More

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