Economic Growth Sustained By Skilled Educated Population; A Sustainable Development Approach Model in Egypt

This paper presents the Skilled Population strategy that helped Egypt as a developing country to reach the goal of having and making the best use of a high-quality pool of skills. The model has been applied by the industrial modernization center, The EU joint program with the Egyptian Government. The project has been applied in Egypt, On Damietta city, to enhance different industrial sectors .
This program has developed a global Skills Strategy as an integrated, cross-government strategic framework that helps Egypt to identify the strengths and weaknesses of its national skills system, benchmark them internationally, and develop policies that can transform better skills into better jobs, which resulted with economic growth and social inclusion
The expected outcomes from this Model, is an approach Skills Strategy that shifts the focus from traditional measures of skills, to a much broader perspective over a whole lifetime.
In addition, the paper points out skills value, that should be continuously maintaining and upgrading throughout life to compete and connect in ways that drive economies and societies forward.