Efforts to reduce poverty rates in Iraq

Efforts to reduce poverty rates in Iraq




6/21/2017 0:00

Baghdad / roar Imad
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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