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The poor of Iraq .. Who kills them first: poverty or the Corona epidemic?
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During previous years, successive governments launched several strategies to reduce poverty experienced by most Iraqis, the first of which was in 2010 and the last in 2018 with the formation of the government of Adel Abdul Mahdi, who resigned at the beginning of this year as a result of the protests.
All of these strategies did not go beyond their paper plans. Most of them were five and ten, and the most recent were for two years.
The result has always been an increase in poverty rates or a decrease in them in small proportions, but it has not been able to seriously reduce the burden of the citizen who suffered from poor planning, the absence of services and the necessities of a decent life.
Observers say: For years, we have heard the government and the Ministry of Planning put in place giant strategies that will lift the poor out of their reality in a few simple years, but here we are now in 2020, and the conditions of Iraqis are still the same as they were 16 years ago. Nothing has changed. The poor remain dreaming of a loaf of bread and food security, subject to loss every day.
The alarm and
with the drop in world oil prices, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] going through a dangerous turn that predicts major problems in the near future.
According to parliamentary statements, the amount of the deficit in the budget for this year will reach approximately fifty billion dollars, which is the largest in the history of Iraqi budgets, which will eventually lead to more harm to the segment of the poor who are already suffering.
This risk will cause severe damage to the poorer classes and increase their proportion.
And keeping oil prices intact and lower in the future will lead to harm to the economic cycle that exists in Iraq, which depends mainly on selling oil and converting its imports into salaries, and these salaries are spent through daily consumption.
And if the decline in oil prices continues, the government will be unable to secure salaries, which represent 80% of the state’s financial budget, and therefore the poverty will widen and the non-income brackets will be crushed.
And all the explosive budgets, as they were described during the past years, from which the Iraqis knew nothing but what they heard from the political parties ’arguments about it, did not prevent many Iraqis from starving, and they only dreamed of providing food for their families.
More than 6.9 million Iraqis live below the poverty line and refuse to comply with the embargo, because it is beyond their means.
Today, they are vulnerable to the invasions of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] virus , which could turn it into a fatal focus.
Prison camps and forgetfulness
There are more than seventy families residing in Aweirej camp, which the government refuses to recognize as a camp for the displaced or the displaced, after they demolished their homes beyond the agricultural land more than a year ago and moved them to the barren camp land and left them without any care, forcing them to build simple huts of tin plates To house their families.
These people live isolated from the outside world, after being forced in the past three weeks to stay inside the camp, waiting for the government to provide them with the necessities of life or pay attention to their old modern tragedy with poverty.
Even in the conditions of the epidemic and campaigns launched by the Government and health authorities to sterilize various areas, no one Awiridj camp laser did not recall his presence a
widening poverty map and an extension of the epidemic
suffering of the families Awiridj camp is a model for the suffering of the poor in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Those, according to the Ministry of Planning, make up 20% of the population, according to a survey conducted by the ministry in 2018 and announced by the end of last year.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Planning, Abd Al-Zahra Al-Hindawi, explains a map of the distribution of poverty among [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Iraqi [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , and says, "According to the statistics we conducted in 2018, the poverty rate reached 20% in all of Iraq and its distribution according to geographical regions is higher in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] southern [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] than in other governorates, as it reaches About 31.5% in general. "
He adds: "At the governorate level, we find that Al-Muthanna Governorate occupies the first position and the poverty rate reaches 52%, followed by Al-Diwaniyah Governorate with a rate of 49%, then Maysan Governorate with 48% and Dhi Qar Governorate with 45%."
And it indicates that "the poverty rate is declining in the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Central to 17%. The total in the capital Baghdad , 12.5% , while up in the Kurdistan region to about 12% and in Kirkuk and Diyala to about 12% and in the provinces that were to occupy Daesh to 30%. "
Provinces poor rich
, according to a survey of the Ministry of Planning, the poverty rate rises in the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] of oil - rich southern resources natural addition to contain the majority of the population, which means that the majority of the parliamentary and government represents.
this reality brings us back memory to back a little bit, when intersected rates high with the high poverty rate political representation, pushed the people of those [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] to come out in protest at different stations, most recently October uprising / Ok Webber past, continuing even today in those [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] without other western and northern provinces.
These [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Today it contains high rates of coronavirus infection. Despite all this, the Iraqi government has not announced any plan to subsidize its poor to cope with the epidemic and bear the stone.
In answering a question about that, Abdul-Zahra Al-Hindawi talks about "the existence of a future action intention in the cell that the government set up to confront the spread of the epidemic."
He says: "The cell studied the subject and relied on the census ratios that we conducted in the ministry, and in the event of the continuation of the embargo days, the government will approve aid and urgent steps to help the poor families."
[You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]
During previous years, successive governments launched several strategies to reduce poverty experienced by most Iraqis, the first of which was in 2010 and the last in 2018 with the formation of the government of Adel Abdul Mahdi, who resigned at the beginning of this year as a result of the protests.
All of these strategies did not go beyond their paper plans. Most of them were five and ten, and the most recent were for two years.
The result has always been an increase in poverty rates or a decrease in them in small proportions, but it has not been able to seriously reduce the burden of the citizen who suffered from poor planning, the absence of services and the necessities of a decent life.
Observers say: For years, we have heard the government and the Ministry of Planning put in place giant strategies that will lift the poor out of their reality in a few simple years, but here we are now in 2020, and the conditions of Iraqis are still the same as they were 16 years ago. Nothing has changed. The poor remain dreaming of a loaf of bread and food security, subject to loss every day.
The alarm and
with the drop in world oil prices, [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] going through a dangerous turn that predicts major problems in the near future.
According to parliamentary statements, the amount of the deficit in the budget for this year will reach approximately fifty billion dollars, which is the largest in the history of Iraqi budgets, which will eventually lead to more harm to the segment of the poor who are already suffering.
This risk will cause severe damage to the poorer classes and increase their proportion.
And keeping oil prices intact and lower in the future will lead to harm to the economic cycle that exists in Iraq, which depends mainly on selling oil and converting its imports into salaries, and these salaries are spent through daily consumption.
And if the decline in oil prices continues, the government will be unable to secure salaries, which represent 80% of the state’s financial budget, and therefore the poverty will widen and the non-income brackets will be crushed.
And all the explosive budgets, as they were described during the past years, from which the Iraqis knew nothing but what they heard from the political parties ’arguments about it, did not prevent many Iraqis from starving, and they only dreamed of providing food for their families.
More than 6.9 million Iraqis live below the poverty line and refuse to comply with the embargo, because it is beyond their means.
Today, they are vulnerable to the invasions of the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] virus , which could turn it into a fatal focus.
Prison camps and forgetfulness
There are more than seventy families residing in Aweirej camp, which the government refuses to recognize as a camp for the displaced or the displaced, after they demolished their homes beyond the agricultural land more than a year ago and moved them to the barren camp land and left them without any care, forcing them to build simple huts of tin plates To house their families.
These people live isolated from the outside world, after being forced in the past three weeks to stay inside the camp, waiting for the government to provide them with the necessities of life or pay attention to their old modern tragedy with poverty.
Even in the conditions of the epidemic and campaigns launched by the Government and health authorities to sterilize various areas, no one Awiridj camp laser did not recall his presence a
widening poverty map and an extension of the epidemic
suffering of the families Awiridj camp is a model for the suffering of the poor in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Those, according to the Ministry of Planning, make up 20% of the population, according to a survey conducted by the ministry in 2018 and announced by the end of last year.
The spokesperson for the Ministry of Planning, Abd Al-Zahra Al-Hindawi, explains a map of the distribution of poverty among [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] Iraqi [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] , and says, "According to the statistics we conducted in 2018, the poverty rate reached 20% in all of Iraq and its distribution according to geographical regions is higher in [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] southern [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] than in other governorates, as it reaches About 31.5% in general. "
He adds: "At the governorate level, we find that Al-Muthanna Governorate occupies the first position and the poverty rate reaches 52%, followed by Al-Diwaniyah Governorate with a rate of 49%, then Maysan Governorate with 48% and Dhi Qar Governorate with 45%."
And it indicates that "the poverty rate is declining in the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Central to 17%. The total in the capital Baghdad , 12.5% , while up in the Kurdistan region to about 12% and in Kirkuk and Diyala to about 12% and in the provinces that were to occupy Daesh to 30%. "
Provinces poor rich
, according to a survey of the Ministry of Planning, the poverty rate rises in the [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] of oil - rich southern resources natural addition to contain the majority of the population, which means that the majority of the parliamentary and government represents.
this reality brings us back memory to back a little bit, when intersected rates high with the high poverty rate political representation, pushed the people of those [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] to come out in protest at different stations, most recently October uprising / Ok Webber past, continuing even today in those [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.] without other western and northern provinces.
These [You must be registered and logged in to see this link.]Today it contains high rates of coronavirus infection. Despite all this, the Iraqi government has not announced any plan to subsidize its poor to cope with the epidemic and bear the stone.
In answering a question about that, Abdul-Zahra Al-Hindawi talks about "the existence of a future action intention in the cell that the government set up to confront the spread of the epidemic."
He says: "The cell studied the subject and relied on the census ratios that we conducted in the ministry, and in the event of the continuation of the embargo days, the government will approve aid and urgent steps to help the poor families."
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