With regard to policy priorities, as well as improved efficiency and a focus on high-return public investments, Mr Matambo emphasised the need to address poverty, targeting its eradication rather than mere alleviation. However, beyond announcing that an additional P100m (US$14.3m) would be allocated to anti-poverty programmes and that updated information on poverty levels would be available by mid-2011 (itself highly welcome given that the most recent estimate, that 30.6% of the population was living below the poverty line, dates from 2002/03), he was short on details of any new initiatives, and the government remains vulnerable to criticism that is too reliant on populist but unsustainable spending such as labour-intensive public works and agricultural subsidies.