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1 minute ago, blueskyline said:

Thank You Beautiful...

 

I would like to add to the Thank You, BeautifulDream!

 

The highlighted portion, "she answered" Najib, this time is different from its predecessors, because the United Nations oversees this plan and has allocated a large sum for her, that's why we think the success of this plan. ""

 

To me, this demonstrates that whatever plans are in place by Iraq or any international agency, another plan by another agency can be put in place to facilitate a desired end. This also is evidence to me that there may be another monetary plan to be implemented in the near future that supersedes or displaces current plans in Iraq while no apparent agency has precedence.

 

So "has allocated" appears to be past tense while coupled with "large sum for her". The statement appears optimistic by concluding "we think the success of this plan".

 

I am suspecting that once sufficient Sovereign State mechanisms are reasonably functioning in Iraq, the flood gate will open releasing an economic tsunami into Iraq. In my opinion, a rapid improvement of the Iraqi standard of living is essential to substantiate confidence in the form of Iraqi government in place to avert sectarian conflicts fueled by foreign entities that possibly will lead to a Civil War. My opinion is the natural resources in Iraq must be governed by a stable and peaceable government in Iraq to avoid the Iraqi natural resources from being governed by a more sinister entity that foments terrorism and other forms of chaos in Iraq and world wide.

 

Just my opinion and :twocents:

 

In the mean time.......................

 

Go Moola Nova!

 

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IRAQ TO REBUILD INFRASTRUCTURE THROUGH FIVE YEAR PLAN POST ISIS
Iraq, May 2, 2017

More than half of the revenues Iraq obtained last year from oil sales and domestic incomes have gone outside of the country to meet internal needs, something Iraqi officials want to tackle through setting a five year long term recovery plan to rebuild the country’s infrastructure.

In coordination with the UN, the Iraqi government held a conference in Erbil to discuss the mechanisms of formulating the five year plan in a bid to rid Iraq of the overwhelming financial burdens it has faced in the wake of the fight against ISIS and massive flows of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs).


Explaining the long term plan Iraq is working on from Erbil, Alaadin Jaafar, an official from the Finance Ministry said “the plan sets out how Iraq could increase its incomes aside from oil revenues.”

An estimated “$350 to $400 billion” is needed during the period for the recovery plan, he detailed.

Iraq’s national and foreign debts will most likely to have exceeded $125 billion before the end of this year despite growing oil production and revenues, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which offers annual projections of financial conditions across the world.

According to the predictions, the debts will land around $134 billion by the end of next year despite steady oil production. This is expected to raise the current 4,5 million barrels per day (bpd) by 10 percent to 5 billion.

The Iraqi Ministry of Planning, however, says the implementation of the plan will not be easy since earmarking $400 billion is a huge amount.

“Succeeding the plan will not be easy as billions of dollars flow out of Iraq every year,” Dr. Mahmood Daghr, Finance Manager at the Iraqi Central Bank who was an attendant of the conference, told Rudaw.“

“In last year alone, $45 billion has gone abroad for goods while the Iraqi budget was $70 billion as a whole,” he noted.

As Daghr stated, the Iraqi government's key source of income comes from oil exports which covers 95 percent of the fiscal budget to Baghdad, but this sector is also at stake.

The savings of the Iraqi government had reached $90 billion in 2013, but this amount has now steadily plummeted to $53 billion, he warned.

Corruption and lack of transparency are two key factors leading to worsening financial stability in Baghdad.

Another official from the Planning Ministry said “corruption and the embezzlement of the incomes of Iraq are so high, it cannot be even counted.”

Based on data his ministry has collected, he warned “corruption rate in the revenues Iraq obtains have exceeded 50 percent.”

He mentioned that the Electricity Ministry is a major victim of corruption because “until now $36 billion has been expended in this sector, but power given to the people is only between 6 to 8 hours per day. Besides embezzlement and corruption, what other explanation can you provide when a large amount of money is spent and there is no electricity.”

More dangerous than that, he warned, is employing “a group of people whose job is to just embezzle money.”

The UN is the major player in formulating the plan to boost Iraq’s economy in the post-ISIS phase.

The fight against ISIS has done Iraq great harm due to destructive urban warfare with the jihadists as some areas are partly destroyed and others completely demolished.

The Iraqi Construction and Housing Ministry revealed through data that damage caused in the once thriving cities in the northern part of the country have suffered greatly.

“Eighty percent of the cities where the fight against ISIS took place are destroyed,” said Istebraq Ibrahim, deputy minister of the Housing and Construction Ministry.

Ibrahim, who has served in the ministry for 39 years, went on to yearn that “the majority of cities are destroyed in a way that scars of destruction could be clearly noticed in every sectors of life.”

The city of Ramadi in Anbar which fell to ISIS in May 2015 until it was retaken by the Iraqi government in the beginning of 2016 has been damaged more than any other place.

The fight against ISIS has not ended, but the group is largely weakened as they continue to withdraw from areas they once controlled in Nineveh province. To rebuild the war-ravaged area, Ibrahim suggests, they need $70 billion.

The war on ISIS has not only damaged the roads, buildings and civilian houses, but also Iraq’s largest oil refineries

Ziya Jaafar. Deputy Minister of Oil, pointed out that “the loss Iraq has suffered due to ISIS in the oil sector is more than $15 billion, of which $10 billion was at Baiji refinery alone.”

Baiji refinery located in Bajji, Salahadin province is home to Iraq’s largest refinery which briefly fell to the hands of the militants.

“As part of the long term recovery plan,” Jaafar explained, Iraq aims to “increase oil exports to 7,500,000 barrels of oil per day over the next five years.”

Iraq and the Kurdistan Region have 152 billion barrels of oil which are not drilled yet.

Based on $42 a barrel, Iraq has estimated to receive around $56 billion in 2017 from oil sales, according to the country’s budget. The government has an $85 billion budget for the current year.

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Hafiz: $ 3 billion provided by the restructuring of non-productive institutions

   
 

 
 

05/03/2017 0:00 
 
BAGHDAD / Shokran Fatlawi
The Ministry of Planning concluded the activities of the first conference of the National Development Plan 2018 - 2022 in cooperation with the local area development program implemented by the United Nations Development Program and funded by the European Union in order to develop an effective economic development plan and draw an appropriate roadmap 
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The conference addressed several issues in the forefront of economic policies in Iraq and the most important challenges and future visions, and the focus of the National Development Plan 2018 2022 and the agenda of sustainable development , the general framework, as well as several axes in various sectors, including the private sector and the new directives within the National Development Plan accompanied that parallel sessions included reality foreign and domestic investment and the importance of coordination of international cooperation for the implementation of development policies in Iraq. 
Former Minister of Planning Dr. Mahdi Al - Hafiz opened economic meeting aimed to discuss the draft national development plan in Iraq for the period 2018 - 2022 speech in which he addressed a number of essential to Iraq 's future economic and development issues of importance, noting that the new plan is clearly aimed towards effective economic development, pointing out that the economic and social background of the country have been addressed and presented well, in many research papers. He said Hafiz, there are no economic vision and economic Acash national fixed cover Iraq as a whole, so that development plans are announced for Atelzm state as a whole, but are indicators of Atbhr theory of what is required in this period at the level of real development. 
Hafiz alerted to the need for the development of public administration of the state or the so - called weak economic governance, noting that 14 years ago, the prevailing view that the economy be restructured and given the private sector and investment priority in the ladder of economic policies. 
And called for dealing with radical economic structure so that re - examined the dominance of the public sector and enable the private sector to play a leading role in all sectors, including financial, monetary and banking. 
He noted that the restructuring of some non - productive institutions and the public sector will release the budget of a large burden of more than $ 3 billion. As the "inflation" slack in the state apparatus to make Iraq the top countries in terms of the proportion of the total population of staff to a condition that weakens the productive investment in the state. 
He recommended Hafiz need to discuss measures a group that would improve the situation, including the removal of restrictions on investment and improve the process and the productive sectors of efficiency, particularly electricity, services , and promote transparency in the use of resources and the redistribution of wealth on the basis of sound and to strengthen the institutional framework of the state and the rejection of sectarianism controls, and the formulation of effective national economic policy. 
 He said Hafiz that reform axes are concentrated in the economic reconstruction structure and securing the removal of the dominance of the public sector on economic activities and enable the private sector to play a leading role in the national economy , as stated in the strategic development of the private sector issued in 2014 followed by also resolve the banking crisis , according to the suggestions of the World Bank . Academic d. As Abdul Hadi said the "morning" .. The conference came to those who hold the economy in the public and private sectors, it was diagnosed kinks seriously and put them effective treatments. 
He noted that economic reform requires that the public and private sectors exist in one place and addressed the challenges facing the development process to come up with solutions and  
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CONFERENCE FOR PREPARATION OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
Iraq, May 6, 2017

Iraq’s Ministry of Planning launched the first round of discussions on the National Development Plan of Iraq (NDP) 2018-2022.

The three-day conference was jointly organized in Erbil by the Ministry of Planning and the Local Area Development Programme (LADP), a project implemented by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and funded by the European Union (EU).

Over 300 representatives of the Council of Ministers, Ministries, Governorates, private sector, trade unions, civil society and academia, attended the conference in addition to the diplomatic corps and international organizations.

HE Minister of Planning, Dr. Salman Al-Jumaily, said:

“Against the current complex situation in Iraq came the idea of formulating the NDP. This is a major step towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The liberation of our territories is not enough. We should stand ready to rebuild our liberated areas in order to reach sustainable development. The new NDP should provide for new concepts to foster administrative decentralization and stimulate the private sector.”

HE Minister of Planning of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Dr. Ali Sindi, stated:

“Economic empowerment is key to sustainable development, and this was elaborated in the Kurdistan Region’s Vision 2020 that focused on the human factor. For sustainable development to be reached, the NDP should provide for investment in education, healthcare and basic services, empowerment of youth, inclusion of women and vulnerable groups, job creation for the less privileged, and support to small and medium businesses.”

Head of EU Office in Erbil, Ms. Clarisse Pasztory, reiterated:

“Through LADP, the EU has been supporting institutions by relying on the leadership of national, regional and local governments along with civil society organizations and Iraqi citizens. This NDP is your lead, your chance to have a say. The EU and its partners remain committed to assist and share experiences on good governance and decentralization. Development can actually make a difference and help to overcome the drivers and consequences of war.”

UNDP Country Director for Iraq, Mr. Mounir Tabet, said:

“This first discussion of the NDP in Iraq manifests the dedication of the government to strengthen good governance and involve all stakeholders in a participatory, inclusive, and transparent process that reflects the aspirations of all constituencies. Developing such a plan with a bottom-up approach, embracing the priorities and actions adopted at the local level within the Provincial Development Strategies, and integrating the SDGs are a first. I congratulate Iraq for this effort and thank the EU for their continuing support.”

Participants discussed a draft framework for the NDP, challenges, planning and results based management, sectoral statistics, distribution of roles amongst involved actors, in addition to other themes such as migration reforms, displacement, reconstruction of liberated areas, gender, and strategies for poverty alleviation.

The LADP supports 12 governorates to effectively plan and implement local development strategies. It further advocates for women empowerment, and enables youth to contribute to their communities through creative solutions under the EU/UNDP Innovation for Development Initiative.

The EU and UNDP are partnering in 140 countries to deepen democratic governance, prevent or help countries recover from conflict and natural disasters, build resilience, and adapt to climate change.

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The completion of the strategy of poverty alleviation 2018-2022

   
 

 
 

06/06/2017 1:21 
 
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concluded in the Lebanese capital , Beirut , business workshop fourth and final work in the framework of the preparation and prepare for the completion and launch of the national strategy for poverty alleviation in Iraq in the second edition of the years 2018-2022 with the support of the World Bank and other international organizations , which are expected to be approved in its final form during the coming months
 During the days of the workshop  
five, review the results  
achieved from the first strategy 2010-2014 and the challenges and circumstances faced, with a discussion of the final draft of the strategy of poverty alleviation in Iraq for the years 2018-2022, seeking to fill the gaps in the activities included in the second strategy to benefit from the first strategy.
 Undersecretary of the Ministry of Planning Qasim care screening suggests that the decline in oil prices and the emergence of "Daesh" and the resulting waves of displacement caused aggravation of poverty in the country due to the reduction of public spending and reduce the gross domestic product was expected to grow by 9 percent annually between 2013-2014 . 
He noted that the exodus had negative effects on poverty and the labor market as it has been estimated decline in the number of employees as a result of the public crisis of 2014 by about 800 thousand jobs, meaning that 800 thousand extra person aged 15-63 years have become without work compared to the scenario of normal growth, either employees of them, the the crisis led them to shift from productive work and higher incomes in the industry and construction sector to the productivity and lower incomes in the non - performing business in the sectors of agriculture and services. 
He sort out that the government has begun implementing a program to correct the fiscal situation, noting that the sharp decline in oil prices has resulted in a sharp rise in the budget of 6 percent deficit of gross domestic product in 2013 to 14 percent of GDP in 2015, and in religion year from 31 percent of GDP in 2013 to 56 percent in 2015, also caused the decline in oil prices in the deterioration of the deficit in the current account of the balance of payments surplus payments stood at 1 percent of GDP in 2013 to a deficit of 6 percent in 2015 . Undersecretary of the Ministry of planning predicted that the output is witnessing pain I total discharge of 8 percent during the year 2017 in the light of the donor - funded agreement, and non - oil growth is recovering gradually to reach half of its normal growth in 2014 before progress with progress in the liberation of the occupied territories by "Daesh" government. 
He explained that a gradual increase in oil prices and to correct the fiscal situation gradually reduce the budget deficit from 13.5 percent of GDP in 2015 to around zero in 2020 and reduce the deficit in the current account of the balance of payments from 6 percent in 2015 to less than 2 percent a year 2021. 
for their part , expressed by representatives of international organizations participating in the workshop readiness to provide all possible support for the successful implementation of the new strategy, as it said the United Nations Development program Director in Iraq Munir constant pursuit of the program to provide appropriate support for strategic activities that should be with the plans identifies National development, noting that all affiliated international organizations under the United Nations tent, particularly related activities multi - dimensional anti - poverty organizations have a willingness to provide the required support
Participants called for the need Asttnina strategic projects of the Financial Management Act of what would contribute to the recycling amounts disbursed to the coming years and to provide additional funds for poverty reduction projects included in the strategy of the general budget for the program of the regions and allocations petrodollar development allocations.
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Predicted a spokesman for the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi, the adoption of the national strategy for poverty reduction 2018 - 2022 in the coming months, after the Standing Technical Committee carried out observations and ideas leading up to prepare for the adoption of the strategy.

 
Hindawi pointed out, «the importance of the fourth workshop organized by the Ministry with the participation of the quality of mission of experts in development affairs, including the World Bank and the United Nations Development Program and the Organization« UNICEF »and» World Food Program ».

 

He explained that the discussion touched on the «first strategy 2010 - 2014, and the challenges faced, and the adoption of the final draft of the strategy for 2018 - 2022, seeking to bridge the gaps in the activity of the first strategic results».

 
Hindawi announced that the plenary sessions of the workshop, the fourth and final «discussed the Social Fund for Development, which was approved by the Council of Ministers and form the national team to prepare procedural requirements with the International Technical Bank, which provided a loan to a fund worth $ 50 million, with the allocation of $ 20 million grant from the general budget of the state project team» . He explained that the Fund is «integrated development institution aimed at economic empowerment and improving living standards and alleviating poverty and reducing unemployment by supporting small businesses and support the provision of financial and non-financial services, and community development projects in the areas and target groups.»


He said that the participants «discussed in strategic results and funding mechanisms, the first focused on providing the highest and sustainable work for the poor through the implementation of activities contributing to the income, and represented the second by improving the health status of the poor, and its activities to establish centers or health houses or mobile clinics in poor areas and rehabilitation and processing. The third result aimed at improving the education of the poor through the construction of schools, rehabilitation and maintenance in poor areas, giving priority to the training of teachers in them. » The fourth result, she stressed the «need to provide adequate housing for the poor and the environment responsive to the challenges, and among the activities of the implementation of the preparation for the rehabilitation project clusters of random housing, and interest in eco-tourism in the reserves and around to increase national income and the preservation of biodiversity, as well as solar energy to provide electricity use in poor areas. » The second result ruled according to Hindawi, b »to achieve effective social protection for the poor».


He pointed out that al-Hindawi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Planning Qasem care screening, said during the workshop that «the first strategy has seen the challenges and some of them still exists, which requires work to find solutions to face the second strategy and preparation.» He said that the decline in oil prices and the emergence of «Daesh» and the resultant of that displacement of waves, caused a worsening of poverty. »


Confirmed the Director of the Executive Management strategy to reduce poverty in Iraq Najla Ali Murad, in her intervention, to alleviate the 2018 - 2022 «poverty strategy that seeks to improve the situation of the poor and lift them out of poverty, through the development of their incomes and their access to suitable quality services.» It considered that «the strategy entails the implementation of the outcomes and activities and the continuation of the political will and government commitment and availability required for the implementation of financial and material resources». Referring to «growing new phenomenon in cities and urban centers since 2003, it consisted of random gatherings, which today is home to more than 3 million people make up about 10 percent of Iraq's total population.» Considered that «the ongoing challenges still facing the strategy, and on this basis has been adopted, a road map is important for the rehabilitation of slums in Iraq in cooperation with the United Nations Human Settlements.»

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Efforts to reduce poverty rates in Iraq

   
 

 
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Preparing the Ministry of Planning to launch a strategy of poverty alleviation (2018 2022) during the next two months, with a view to reducing the rates from 22 to 8 percent, while the ministry is seeking to implement a new survey of poverty, the end of the year Alhala.oukal official ministry spokesman Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi, in a statement »Sabah»: the strategy of the new poverty alleviation (2018 2022), still in the pipeline, and it is hoped to launch in the next two months, adding that the financial crisis experienced by the country because of the decline in oil prices, the ministry made the resort to rely on international grants in the financing of strategic projects over allocations of pain Public offset.
He added 'that the main objective of this strategy lies in reducing poverty rates, through the adoption of an economic policy that is consistent with the financial situation of the country, adding that the ministry will strategy to donors and international organizations for support
Hindawi pointed out that the crisis of displaced people occupied an important where as of the poorest space, highlighting poor areas, to include economic and social development programs in the context of improving the living conditions of individuals, pointing out that the strategy will depend on the base of development projects aimed at improving the living reality and of life generally poor families. 
According to a spokesman for the ministry, that according to the latest survey carried out rates of poverty in the country in 2015, the overall rate was 22.5 percent across the country, but the areas controlled by the «Daesh» terrorist gangs in which the rate was 41 percent, adding that the poverty rate in the Kurdistan region amounted to 12 percent, according to the survey. 
With regard to poverty in the southern provinces ratios, said Hindawi, it stood at 30 percent, while the center and in the provinces of Kirkuk , Diyala and 17 percent, pointing out that the poverty rate in the capital reached 13 percent. 
He explained that poverty rates rose very impressively in the districts of the province of Muthanna as it reached the ratio in which more than 70 percent, pointing at the same time that the ministry aims through the strategy to reduce poverty rates across the country from 22 to 8 percent. Hindawi pointed out that the ministry is seeking to launch a new survey to see the poverty rate in the country after the completion of the liberalization of land operations of the gangs «Daesh», is likely to be implemented before the end of this year to find out the real indicators.
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The Ministry of Planning, Saturday, for the second near the launch of the National Strategy for Poverty Reduction for the next five years, while suggesting that the Muthanna province leads the provinces of the country, the level of poverty.

He said the ministry spokesman Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi said in a statement, said that "the Ministry of Planning is nearing completion of the second national strategy preparation for poverty alleviation in Iraq, which will be extended to five years from 2018 to 2022," explaining that "this strategy is the second after the first strategy, which was launched in 2010 and extended to 2016 ".

He said al-Hindawi, that "the next strategy will focus on six key goals, notably achieving a higher income for the poor and the proportion of improved health and environmental level as well as providing social protection for them."

In a related context Hindawi pointed out that "the province of Muthanna, according to the latest survey conducted by the ministry in 2015 Iraq topping the highest poverty rate of up to 70%

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Iraqi government sources said that a ministerial committee is working to launch a national strategy to alleviate poverty in the country, in an attempt to contain the rising proportion of Iraqis under the poverty line, whose percentage exceeded the areas of control of the government 31% and in areas of control or urged to expelled from more than 48%.
A senior official at the Ministry of Finance said that the plan is to be completed within two months from now, to be implemented early next year 2018, pointing out that it depends on several mechanisms for the purpose of success, which will continue until 2022.
According to the information, six international bodies, including a bank, financial institutions and various governments are working to help Iraq to complete the plan, which is the first of its kind, targeting about 7 million Iraqis.
The plan will be based on granting soft loans to small and medium-sized enterprises, granting agricultural loans to land owners, on the condition of reclamation and cultivation, granting housing loans, opening at least 400 factories and a state-owned factory to attract labor and obligating foreign and local investors to be The number of Iraqis working in their projects is not less than 70%, in addition to the adoption of projects for women in the home for widows and divorcees.
Mohammed al-Moussawi, a member of the Iraqi parliament, said that a specialized committee is continuing to prepare all the details of the plan before it was announced and aimed at alleviating poverty and not eliminating it. The task is great in Iraq, pointing out that donor countries and organizations will help Iraq in the plan, Next September by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi.
A report by the Iraqi Ministry of Planning showed a significant increase in the poverty and unemployment rate in the country, reaching 48% and 48% of the government controlled areas.
The provinces of Anbar, Salah al-Din, Diyala, Mosul, Kirkuk and Baghdad topped the list of the poorest provinces, followed by Muthanna, Babil and Dhi Qar.
Experts attribute the rise of poverty in Iraq to an invasion of the country, the decline in oil prices globally, and the spread of corruption in the joints of state institutions.
Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi, a spokesman for the Iraqi Ministry of Planning earlier this June, said the poverty rate before 2014 was between 13% to 15%, but after the emergence of dizziness and waves of displacement and the economic crisis and the permanent decline in oil prices, Poverty has doubled, and has jumped above 30% and is increasing day by day.
Members of parliament and civil activists are seeking to draft new laws that will reduce poverty.
Gamal al-Wakil, a member of the Iraqi Human Rights Commission, said the current effort is to compel the government to enact laws that would stop the escalation of poverty first and then alleviate it.
“The current social imbalance must be fixed. Iraq has two very first layers, the second is very poor, there is no middle class, and all because of financial and administrative corruption,” he said.
In December 2015, the Iraqi Ministry of Planning announced that it had launched a poverty reduction strategy in a country where more than a third of the population lives on less than $ 2 a day.

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Citizens: activating the private sector, reduce poverty

   
 

 
 

09/07/2017 0:00 
 
Baghdad / Mustafa al-Hashemi
The problem of poverty and unemployment solutions represent hope among many young job seekers as they are waiting for those solutions aspirants to contribute to changing the reality in which they live and develop their living conditions and economic reason to reconsider the distribution of employment opportunities equitably by activating the activity of the private sector as the most capable of accommodating energies producing career away from winning the slack in the public sector.
The Ministry of Planning recent strategy to reduce poverty 2018- 2022 and discussed at a workshop held in Beirut last month , the final version of the strategy review of theresults achieved from the first Strategy 2010 - 2014, challenges and circumstances faced in order to develop effective solutions to implement them effectively and apply them to achieve the economic benefit of the community. 
Says Mohammed Suleiman - 44 years: the proportion of the poor and years ago increasing despite the presence of government support for them represented the social protection network, stressing in an interview with the "morning" that the general conditions require reform as well as the need to re - look at the distribution of employment opportunities equitably among young people and graduates so as to ensure them a decent life with a luxury acceptable. 
Through the workshop mentioned several outcomes , including the achievement of effective social protection for the poor through the reform of the ration card system and linking them to the database covered by the data of social protection network emerged with a mechanism for the inclusion of the beneficiaries of the social protection system for small loans and linking them to expel them from the Alhamaih.kma system included a strategy to provide a higher income sustainable and comes from the work of the poor through the implementation of a number of activities contributing to the provision of income to the poor , including graduates of stimulating agricultural institutes, veterinary and agricultural colleges and Alaaadadiat to set up projects and agricultural companies provide employment opportunities in the countryside, a Spyware to other activities important. 
The third outcome is to improve the health status of the poor as it included a range of important activities , including the establishment and rehabilitation of processing centers or health houses or mobile clinics in poor areas, and others while the third outcome aimed at improving the education of the poor through the construction and rehabilitation and maintenance of schools in poor areas, giving priority in the training of teachers and teachers in rural areas. 
And see the beautiful desert 33 years - it is necessary to provide employment opportunities for young people through the private sector as long as the government has announced to stop recruitment in the ministries and official departments, set out in an interview for "morning" that job creation will eliminate definitively the problem of poverty and unemployment, especially that Iraq is a rich country It has the natural and human resources are not owned by any other country in the world. 
Jamil said that the public sector is suffering from sagging job either the private sector Vimitlk many institutions, companies and factories are able to absorb the creative and productive capacities of young people without that it is no slouch and functional.
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According to earlier reports, poverty rates in areas restored from a recent organization have exceeded 45%, while the cost of reconstruction of restored cities and villages has been estimated at more than $ 30 billion. 

Al-Hayat newspaper quoted a member of the National Committee for Poverty Reduction MP Noura Al-Bajari as saying today that reports of high poverty rates in the restored governorates are correct. She pointed out that statistics prepared by the Ministry of Planning in cooperation with international organizations showed high poverty rates In the governorates of Salahaddin, Diyala, Nineveh, Anbar and Kirkuk from 20 percent to 45 percent over the past two years. 

The statistics also included victims of terrorism and hostilities, which numbered 18,802 people, while the number of casualties reached 36,245, and the number of abducted women exceeded 4,000. 

For material losses and the cost of Reconstruction, confirmed MP, Noura al-Bjari, that the losses amounted to about 30 billion dollars, where the war caused additional problems, including unemployment and increased illiteracy, diseases and social problems, pointing out that 'the value of international assistance for the relief and resettlement of residents of these areas is large, It has done much less than the problems of processors. ' 

Al-Bijari said that the National Committee for Poverty Reduction had prepared a plan for the years 2018 to 2022 and with an estimated budget of $ 100 billion, the government will use it in coordination with international organizations, institutions and agencies. The reconstruction plan is divided into five axes. The methodology is presented in accordance with the World Bank document, the general context of the governorates, the vision and guidelines for the period and the proposed interventions for reconstruction and development, in preparation for the stage of transition to implementation in phase IV. While the final stage provides for funding mechanisms in light of the difficult economic and financial situation facing Iraq '. 

Official statistics showed earlier that, despite the expulsion of a handful of cities and some of the areas they controlled, the displacement continued because of the food insecurity of about 6 percent of the displaced community, the loss of jobs and higher prices for goods and services in liberated cities compared to other cities Iraq, because of the security situation, which remains unstable. 

A source in the Ministry of Planning has confirmed to 'life', that the ministry has prepared a program to finance the strategy of 'reconstruction' , Part of which relates to international grants and loans, under bilateral agreements in accordance with existing legislation, in addition to funding through various United Nations agencies, sector and jurisdiction, as well as funding through the local private sector and non-governmental organizations. 

A project to finance expanded stability to help more than 350 citizens began implementing income-generating projects worth $ 300 million, during which some service and infrastructure projects will be revitalized and the local economy stimulated. The program itself has earmarked an additional $ 100 million in months Next, add about the need for $ 300 million for next year.

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Poverty rates rise to 45 percent in liberated Iraqi provinces

09-08-2017 11:37 AM
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Poverty rates in the governorates liberated from Da'ash have risen by 45 percent, said Noura Salem al-Bajari, a member of the National Committee for Poverty Alleviation, while estimated the cost of rebuilding these provinces is more than $ 30 billion.

 
Al-Bijari said in a press statement that statistics prepared by the Ministry of Planning in cooperation with international organizations showed the high rates of poverty in the governorates of Salahaddin, Diyala, Nineveh, Anbar and Kirkuk from 20 percent to 45 percent over the past two years. "These statistics do not include IDPs to other cities, as well as migrants out of Iraq," she said.

 

"The statistics also included victims of terrorism and hostilities, with 18,802, while the number of casualties was 36,245. The number of abducted women exceeded 4,000," she said. Material losses "amounted to about $ 30 billion, all of which caused additional problems, including unemployment and increased illiteracy, diseases and social problems."

 
"The value of international assistance for the relief and rehabilitation of the inhabitants of these areas is great, but it remains much less than the problems needed," she said.


A project to finance expanded stability to help more than 350 citizens has begun implementing income-generating projects worth $ 300 million, with some service and infrastructure projects being revitalized and local economies stimulated. The program itself has earmarked an additional $ 100 million to be disbursed in the coming months, as well as the need for $ 300 million next year.


Despite the expulsion of "da'sh" from the cities, I noticed that official statistics "indicate that displacement continues due to the food insecurity of about 6% of the displaced community, the loss of employment opportunities and the high prices of goods and services in liberated cities compared to the rest of Iraq's cities. Remains unstable ".


On the reconstruction plan, Al-Bijari said that the National Committee «prepared a plan for the years 2018-2022 and budget estimated at $ 100 billion initial, will be used by the government in coordination with international organizations and institutions and agencies».


The reconstruction plan is divided into five axes: the presentation of the methodology according to the World Bank document, the plans for presenting the general context of the governorates, the vision and guidelines for the period and the proposed interventions for reconstruction and development, in preparation for the stage of transition to implementation in phase IV. While the final stage provides for funding mechanisms in light of the difficult economic and financial situation facing Iraq.


A source in the Ministry of Planning said that the ministry "has prepared a program to finance this strategy, including funding through international grants and loans, under bilateral agreements in accordance with the legislation in force, as well as funding through various United Nations agencies, sector and jurisdiction, as well as the possibility of funding through the local private sector and non-governmental organizations Because they are important partners in implementation and expect them to receive funding through different financial channels. "

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  • yota691 changed the title to The allocation of 24 billion dinars as loans through the electronic form

The allocation of 24 billion dinars as loans through the electronic form

   
 

 
 

10/8/2017 12:00 am 
 
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The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs provides various loans to citizens to find employment and other opportunities to reduce the poverty rate, as well as other loans allocated to the Ninewa victims, which provide interest-free, but only a small amount called administrative Bajor not more than 1 percent.
The building of the ministry is crowded with borrowers who met one of them «Haydar Jassim of the occupants of Baghdad as a payer walking in the intersection of appeal with his son, the age of 11 years»; says that he has provided a loan since 2011 and whenever he demands the disbursement of the loan (10 million dinars), the Department gives him a small paper to inform him to check them after two months . 
Jassim points out that if he had arranged an advance with others since 2013, he would have received 20 million dinars, adding that this loan was his desire to buy a car that he used for a living and that he lived in it. This loan is interest free and most of the people who came with me received the loan, I was informed that my name was not on the lists of those who were covered and asked me to return after a month, pointing out that the treatment takes place via the Internet and carries a serial number (...). Loan programs and explained that the department three programs of the first loan, the basic program is, which is to support small income-generating projects approved by Law No. 10 of 2012 Fund, noting that the loan amount ranging from 3 to 8 million dinars given to the borrower a grace period of one year from the date of Receipt of the loan and later granted the loan for 5 years, which is the payment period, where the amount is divided over five years, if it has received 8 million dinars paid each year and 800 million dinars each year, either the second program, which is the national strategy to reduce poverty began in 2012 and the number covered to date was 11067 This is done A program in cooperation between the Ministries of Labor and Planning after the Ministry of Finance releases the annual amounts allocated through the Ministry of Planning and we distribute loans annually to borrowers provided that the end of the year does not exceed. "If the year exceeded the money goes to the Ministry of Finance and adds Abdul Amir: The benefits set out in Law No. 10 and the Poverty Reduction Strategy Program are exempt from tax and income tax, but simple amounts are deducted from office fees given once upon receipt of the loan. As for loans for the strategy of poverty alleviation, there are administrative fees of 1 percent, for example, who receives (8) million dinars is taken from (80) thousand dinars only, knowing that the loan allocated for poverty ranging from 3-8 million dinars for 8 years given a grace for one year of received date. Abdul Amir pointed out that the third program is the community rehabilitation program, which belongs to two categories covered by the disabled persons who are disabled by 50 percent and above, widows and divorced women who do not have a fixed income and the loan amount from (100 thousand to 3 million dinars) Interest excluding administrative benefits. Nineveh loans The Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs launched on July 31 of this year the granting of loans to the province of Nineveh and the province has a sum in our fund (24 billion dinars), which was allocated to Nineveh according to its population density estimated at (3 million). He added that the amount amounted to (30 billion dinars) and was disbursed (600) loan Sukuk and the remaining (24 billion dinars) if a loan was granted by eight million dinars, we have given us at least 3,000 loans to citizens of Nineveh province  .
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Poverty rates exceed 45% in Iraq

 
August 10, 2017 at 5:06 pm | Published in: Iraq, Middle East, News
Iraqi civilians arrive at Maktab Khalid region near Kirkuk, Iraq on December 07, 2016 to take shelter near peshmerga forces [Ali Mukarrem Garip /Anadolu Agency]
Iraqis arrive at Maktab Khalid region near Kirkuk, Iraq on December 07, 2016 to take shelter near peshmerga forces [Ali Mukarrem Garip /Anadolu Agency]
 
August 10, 2017 at 5:06 pm

Poverty rates in the provinces restored by the Iraqi Army have increased to over 45 per cent, with expected plans of reconstruction, development and investment estimated at tens of billions of dollars.

The member of the National Central Committee for Poverty Reduction, MP Noura Salem Al-Bajari, estimated the cost of reconstruction of these provinces at more than $30 billion.

According to Al-Hayat newspaper, the statistics that were prepared by the Ministry of Planning in cooperation with international organisations showed increasing rates of poverty in the provinces of Saladin, Diyala, Nineveh, Anbar and Kirkuk, ranging between 20 to 45 per cent over the past two years.

The newspaper pointed out that these statistics do not include those displaced or those who migrated out of Iraq. Al-Bajari said that the statistics included victims of terrorism and wars, about 18,802, and that the number of casualties was 36,245. She added that the number of abducted women exceeded 4,000.

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Financial losses amounted to about $30 billion, which caused additional problems, such as unemployment, illiteracy, disease and social problems.

She considered that the value of international assistance to the relief of the inhabitants and the rehabilitation of these areas is significant, but it remains far lower than what is required to find solutions.

Concerning the reconstruction plan, Al-Bajari said that the National Committee has prepared a plan for the years 2018-2022 and a preliminary budget of $100 billion, which will be implemented by the government in coordination with international organizations, institutions and agencies.

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  • yota691 changed the title to Planning announces the completion of the survey and evaluation of poverty in Iraq
  
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The Ministry of Planning announced the completion of the survey and evaluation of poverty in Iraq in cooperation with the World Bank, which lasted for more than a month and included the provinces of Anbar, Ninewa and Salahuddin using modern techniques.

"The survey carried out by the Central Bureau of Statistics included, for the first time, the provinces of Anbar, Salah al-Din and Nineveh after the liberation of these provinces from the occupation of an advocate," said the spokesman of the Ministry of Planning Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi in a statement obtained by Knozemedia.

"It is the first survey of its kind implemented using modern techniques in the field work through the introduction of data through tablets, as data arrives directly from the field researcher to the entry and treatment center at the headquarters of the Central Bureau of Statistics and this technology will help to accelerate the show results as well as High accuracy ".

"The survey and evaluation of poverty in Iraq, whose results will be announced soon, will reveal to us the current poverty rates more than three years after the last study, which showed that the proportion of poverty in Iraq reached in 2014 about (23%) 

"The Ministry has recorded a decline in poverty rates at the end of 2013 and reached about 16% after the launch of the national strategy to alleviate poverty in Iraq for the years 2010-2014"

He pointed out that "the new indicators that will be shown in the survey will be for the year 2017 and will be used to guide the objectives of the national strategy to alleviate the second poverty achieved by the Ministry for the years and it is hoped to launch soon for the years 2018 2022. ss 

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  • yota691 changed the title to World Bank: We will provide Iraq 2.5 billion dollars over the next two years to rebuild the liberated and poor areas
 
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Economy News Baghdad:

The World Bank mission in Iraq announced that it will provide 2.5 billion dollars to the Iraqi government during the next two years tosupport system" rel="">support the liberated and poor areas, indicating that the debts of the Ministry of Electricity resulting from non-payment of citizens of the wages of the collection of 8 billion dollars.

The Special Representative of the World Bank's mission, Yara Salem in an interview with "Economy News", that there are many obstacles facing the investment environment in Iraq, including the system of governance and issues relating to land ownership of foreign investors and payment of dues private sector, adding that the Iraqi government To resolve these problems and formed special teams including the Secretariat of the Council of Ministers and the Secretariat of Baghdad and the National Investment Commission for that.

She explained that Prime Minister Haider Abadi pays great attention to involving the private sector in the development process and facilitating the work of the private sector to attract vital investments.

She pointed out that the current situation is encouraging for the success of the work of the private sector, especially that the International Donor Conference to be held in Kuwait from February 12 to 14 will accelerate economic reforms by involving the local, Arab and international private sector in the process of building Iraq.

Salem pointed out that the World Bank will provide to Iraq more than 2.5 billion dollars over the next two years to develop infrastructure in the liberated areas as well as poor areas such as Basra, which was indirectly affected by terrorism, explaining that this amount will also contribute to the development of water and sewage network in Baghdad .

The representative of the World Bank in Iraq, the electricity sector needs radical reforms in terms of production and distribution and collection, noting that the debt of citizens due to non-payment of electricity bills estimated at 8 billion dollars, which is a burden on the state treasury, pointing out that there is a need for all Citizens are obliged to pay their dues, which reduces the use of generators because the government does not have the money to deliver services to people.

The privatization of the electricity sector is an option supported by the World Bank. It is a common example in the world. The government should define the type of relationship between the private sector and the public sector, and the picture must be transparent to citizens to understand the privatization process without surprise.

She concluded by saying that there are efforts by the World Bank with the bank of Rashid and Rafidain to improve their work through internal reforms, noting that the Iraqi government is supporting private banks in the development process by granting facilities and guarantees.

 

 

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