📋 Tender Overview
In the 2020s Finlands demographic structure is in a situation where the availability of labour is an even greater socio-political challenge than before and a constraint on economic growth. At the same time ageing increases the need for labour in health and social services. The permanent secretaries recommend among other things the pursuit of an employment rate of 80 and the doubling of work-based immigration. Both of these are demanding objectives the achievement of which requires consistent and also difficult decisions in several policy areas.The green transition is a global phenomenon with a huge investment need. Finland has strengths in this. The primary task of public authorities is to encourage and promote the channelling of private investment in a cost-effective and consistent manner.The challenges and solutions described in the report are interlinked in Finland and also outside the countrys borders. It is essential to strive for a balanced policy in which different perspectives are promoted simultaneously recognising interdependencies. At the level of the whole the need to strengthen the perspectives of ecological and social sustainability alongside the economic perspective has been identified. Alongside these security is a prerequisite for a stable and well-functioning society.
