* Economists criticize 5-yr plan and confirms the high level of poverty in Iraq
Criticized a number of economists, Saturday, five-year plan launched by the Ministry of Planning to eradicate poverty and raise the standard of living of the Iraqi people, considering that the actions taken by the government did not reduce the poverty rate in the country.
He said economic expert at the Institute of Economic Reform Ala Fahd in an interview for “Alsumaria News”, on the sidelines of a seminar hosted by the Institute in Baghdad on human development indicators in Iraq, “The five-year plan announced by Iraq in 2010 was based on realism, objectivity and universality, as well as the lack of suitable ground for the political and security situation in the country, “noting that” This plan did not reach the goal that was organized for him. “
Fahad said that “the plan faced many challenges was not to the efficiency of both departments or ministries in the provinces, in addition to not achieving the desired objectives in the budget for the past two years and limited investment budget compared Balchgalah, as well as lack of foreign investment in Iraq.”
For his part, Member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute Manaf Al Sayegh, “Alsumaria News”, that “the problem that has plagued Iraq in the process of change and reform on the economic and social levels are summarized in bad management of change,” adding that “Iraq could not build a particular model for change which would move the citizen and society from the stage of destitution and only then prosperity. “
Sayegh pointed out that “there is a high level of poverty in the country amounting to 23%, despite the presence of five-year plan,” adding that “these indicators are not positive after eight years of change.”
For his part, the head of the Department of Economics at the University of Mustansiriya measured Jaber in an interview for “Alsumaria News” that “Iraq needs a coherent plan to reduce the incidence of poverty especially in rural areas and to raise the level of education through a budget-investment, in addition to increasing investment allocations to the provinces less poor, “noting that” despite the existence of a plan to combat poverty, but the investment allocations for the current year and past years did not meet the ambition. “
Jaber described the way the budget is put in it a “backward,” noting that “the authors do not know the budget for the national development plan or strategy for poverty alleviation and the Millennium Development Goals.”
The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Planning Mahdi Keywords, said in June of last year 2011 must be the proportion of the poverty level in Iraq is still 23%, which means that a quarter of Iraq’s population living below the poverty line, including nearly 5% in the level of extreme poverty, indicating that the line poverty includes the basic needs of food and other.
It is noteworthy that Iraq was launched in May of 2010, the National Development Plan Five-Year from 2010 to 2014, during a party organized by the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation of Iraq under the slogan “Towards Iraqi economy is diverse and sustainable,” where the plan aims to reduce disparities and barriers between urban and rural areas, and the establishment of infrastructure and providing social services and jobs, and increase GDP by 9.38 percent average annual growth during the period of the plan with work on diversifying the economy, which currently relies on oil imports.
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