These proclamations protect the rights of civil servants and employees within the private sector to retirement /pension allowances and related benefits. The basis of national economic development is the creation of accelerated and sustainable growth with the participation and benefit of all its citizens, ensuring equitable wealth distribution that builds a development-based democratic order. Maximum effort has been exerted to attain development goals to ensure the continuation of the achieved success by respecting, protecting and progressively fulfilling individual and group rights of citizens as an inseparable element of development. During the first two years of the GTP, GDP grew on average by about 10% per annum. The economic growth which has been registered since 2003/04 in the country has been rapid, broad-based and effective in accelerating social development and reducing poverty. Citizens are consulted and able to decide on development projects affecting the areas they inhabit and in which they participate. Decentralization has been effectively established to enable citizens to develop themselves and their region and lead prosperous lives. Through the implementation of agricultural-led industrial development policies, which center on the rural sector inhabited by 85% of the population, keeping government ownership of land and creating an all-inclusive and sustainable land utilization system, the Government has created conditions that benefit the majority of the people. Tremendous results have been achieved by allocating the majority of the government budget to sectors centered on infrastructural development and on pro-poor development. The Government, guided by these principles, drew up and implemented its “Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction Program” and the “Poverty Eradication and Accelerated Sustainable Development Plan” These succeeded in benefiting people largely at various levels; registering impressive economic growth and have been successful in bringing about extensive social development and good governance.97 The Government is now implementing the GTP building on earlier sustainable development and poverty reduction programs. In the agricultural sector, training sessions for farmer and scientifically researched high yield technologies are being introduced yielding encouraging results. In 2010, 52,023 agricultural extension workers were deployed and 5.09 million 97 The FDRE National Human Rights Action Plan 2013- 15, pg 165 116