Five-Year Plan Iraq .. Did you fail like its predecessors?

Five-Year Plan Iraq .. Did you fail like its predecessors?





« on: October 06, 2013, 05:39:50 PM »



10/06/13 Alaa Yousef - Baghdad

Several factors seem to have entered on the line derail the five-year plan launched by the Iraqi Ministry of Planning for the years 2013-2017, including the intervention of politics and parties in the world of numbers and calculations to the removal and marginalization efficiencies through legislation not plan law requiring all government institutions.

Officials explained that the current five-year plan need 417 trillion dinars ($ 350 billion) to achieve its objectives. But the experience with a bitter development plans in Iraq does not bode well, after the U.S. invasion in 2003, failed three five-year development plans in the development of the private sector, in addition to the productive sectors including industry, agriculture, transport and others.

The development of the Iraqi economy


Said Mahdi Keywords - Deputy Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation, Iraq - The five-year plan the current aims to develop the economy, because it is divided in a scientific and professional support of important sectors, and picking them up from the reality that you live now, where have given attention to the sectors of industry, agriculture, transport and tourism.

He said in his speech to the island revealed that the five-year plan the previous 2010 - 2014 did not fail, because there is a tendency since developed to be complementary to the Five-Year Plan 2013 - 2017, although it has contributed in reducing the poverty rate to 19%, and the unemployment rate to 11%.

He stressed that the level of overall growth improved thanks to the previous five-year plan and became 9%, while the 2013-2017 five-year plan will raise the income they will develop Iraqi mission vital sectors, which reflected positively on the economy.

Marginalization of competencies


Iraq can not live without planning for resources for the advancement of the country from decades of underdevelopment due to wars, according to economic expert on behalf of Jamil Antoine, shows in his speech to the island, the Five-Year Plan 2013 - 2017 is necessary and very important to take advantage of great wealth enjoyed by Iraq.

He added that the five-year plan focused on the development of the private sector and to emphasize the role of local and foreign investments, and reduce poverty and create jobs for the unemployed and the advancement of the industrial and agricultural sectors. Explaining that the orientations of the five-year plan comes in harmony with the energy strategy set for 2030.

He said that the reason for the failure of the previous five-year plan due to lack of follow-up by the higher authorities, and the marginalization of competencies and the intervention of political parties in the appointment of staff, particularly as a plan of action for the advancement of the economy is not a political plan.

Binding for all


According to the union president, business unwilling Reza Blibl in his speech to the island, that the Five-Year Plan 2013 - 2017 has avoided the mistakes that occurred the previous plan, because it included key sectors namely agriculture, industry and tourism to become an engine of the economy.



Blibl officials called on the five-year plan of the need to make it mandatory for all state institutions through legislation law (Island)
And called Blibl officials on the five-year plan of the need to make it mandatory for all state institutions through its legislation into law, because the previous five-year plans were indicative only.

He explained that the reason for the failure of the previous five-year plan due to the lack of participation of all representatives of the economic sectors, which were not specific dates and did not follow up by officials to determine where the imbalance.

Society organizations


The President of the Federation of Industries of the former Iraqi Hashim Thanon Atraqchi wondered about the reasons for not taking the opinion of civil society organizations, professional associations, before the adoption of Five-Year Plan 2013 - 2017, and pointed out that this plan could not organize the financial budget, which goes mostly for salaries of state employees, in addition to the lack of interest in investing.

In turn, the economic expert Majid picture in his speech to the island revealed that the 2013-2017 five-year plan will be a good basis in the process of economic development, but its implementation faces significant challenges, and will be doomed to failure if it continues obstacles that thwarted plans three years.

It concluded that the reasons for the failure of previous plans lies in the political and economic situation and the spread of financial and administrative corruption in government departments, not to mention the lack of sufficient political will.

Source: Al Jazeera

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