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Economic and Social Development – 1999

The Economic Development Strategy Review Steering Group was launched in March 1999 to provide recommendations for broad social and economic reforms. This group produced Strategy 2010: A Draft Economic Policy Review. In the report, the group made 62 different recommendations.²

The Department for Social Development was established in 1999, which was responsible for urban regeneration, community, and voluntary sector development, social legislation, housing, social security benefits, pensions, and child support.³ Similarly, the government established the Department of Enterprise, Investment, and Trade to formulate and develop economic policy.⁴

2. “The Good Friday Agreement: New Economic Development Strategy,” BBC News, May 2006, accessed February 13, 2013, http://www.bbc.co.uk/northernireland/schools/agreement/economy/economic1…

   For the regional development strategy, the government commissioned a regional Strategic Framework for Northern Ireland, which produced a document in June 1997. The document laid out Northern Ireland’s future development plans for the next two and half decades.¹“The Good Friday Agreement: New Economic Development Strategy,”

3. “Department for Social Development,” DSD, accessed February 13, 2013, http://www.dsdni.gov.uk/index/about_dsd.htm.
4. “Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment,” accessed February 13, 2013, http://www.detini.gov.uk/deti-about-home.htm.