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Diagram No. 2 – Level of workforce contribution to GDP<br />

As regards Latin America as a whole, meetings took place throughout 2010 in preparation<br />

for the Ibero-American Summit of Heads of State and Governments at which ministers with<br />

responsibility for the different participating portfolios, namely Agriculture, Health, Employment,<br />

Public Administration and Government Reform, Tourism, Education, Children and Young<br />

People, Justice, Presidency, Housing and Town Planning, agreed the objectives to be met by each<br />

country, resulting in the Mar del Plata Declaration “Education for Social Inclusion”.<br />

On that occasion, the heads of state and government reiterated the common goal of advancing<br />

the building of fair, democratic, participatory and collective societies in the context of cultural,<br />

historical and educational cooperation and integration across the Ibero-American region to<br />

secure for everyone in that region a quality education based on intra- and intercultural social<br />

inclusion, in order to promote a fairer Ibero-America, with greater economic, social and cultural<br />

development within democratic, collective and participatory societies that promote the<br />

wellbeing of all of the region’s inhabitants.<br />

The challenges of social inclusion as a central plank of the region’s public policies were brought<br />

up in the various preparatory ministerial meetings. The 13th Meeting of the Ibero-American<br />

Network of Presidential Ministers and Equivalents (RIMPE), held in Lisbon, Portugal, dealt with<br />

the theme of the Participation of Citizens in the Age of Electronic Government, and it was agreed<br />

that “the goals of E-Government must extend beyond the mere effectiveness and efficiency of<br />

administrative processes towards forms which permit social, political and economic change in<br />

support of human development, equality of opportunity and social justice.” (DECLARATION OF<br />

LISBON; 2010)<br />

At the Lisbon conference, the delegate countries agreed desirability of advancing electronic<br />

government initiatives. Specifically, they declared their intention to tackle the following points:<br />

• To promote programs linking electronic government and simplified administration, with the<br />

aim of making interaction between individuals and businesses and the public sector simpler,<br />

faster and more efficient,<br />

• To share experience within the Ibero-American community as regards the creation of unique<br />

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2003: 27% 2010: 44,9%<br />

Source: Indec. http://www.presidencia.gov.ar/component/content/article/138-indicadores/6191-mayor-participacion-de-lostrabajadores-en-el-pbi

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