Planning is waiting for "appropriate allocations" to implement the new plan to combat poverty

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[size=52]Planning is waiting for "appropriate allocations" to implement the new plan to combat poverty[/size]

[size=45]Baghdad / Firas Adnan[/size]
[size=45]The Ministry of Planning expressed its hope to obtain appropriate financial allocations to implement a new plan to combat poverty, pointing out that there are complex circumstances related to the decline in oil prices, the war against terrorism, the Corona pandemic, and political crises that prevented the implementation of all aspects of the two previous plans.[/size]
[size=45]According to government sources, the poverty rate in Iraq currently ranges from 25 to 30% of all Iraqis.[/size]
[size=45]The official spokesman for the Ministry of Planning, Abdul Zahra Al-Hindawi, said, in an interview with (Al-Mada), that “the ministry is currently working in cooperation with national and international bodies to prepare the third strategy to reduce poverty in Iraq.”[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hindawi added, "This strategy extends for five years, and will take into account the repercussions that Iraq witnessed, whether resulting from the Corona pandemic and what it caused in raising poverty levels, or those resulting from the financial and economic crises and high prices."[/size]
[size=45]He pointed out, "All these issues will be taken into consideration along with the income level of the Iraqi per capita in the current circumstance, and other aspects that will be included in the strategy related to health, education, housing and other policies will be present."[/size]
[size=45]And Al-Hindawi indicated that “the new strategy will not differ from its predecessors, but rather it is an extension and completion of it,” expressing his hope that “the financial allocations for this strategy will be better than the previous one; As a result of the improvement in the financial and economic conditions enjoyed by Iraq ».[/size]
[size=45]He explained, "Iraq previously launched two strategic plans to combat poverty, and they achieved part of their goals, but there are circumstances related to the complex Iraqi scene that prevented the full implementation of the goals."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hindawi stressed that the first strategy, which was launched in 2010 until 2014 and then extended for an additional three years, contributed to reducing poverty rates from 23% to 15% by the end of 2013.[/size]
[size=45]And he added, “The percentage at that time returned to rise after Iraq entered into a double crisis, the first represented by the war against the terrorist organization ISIS in 2014, and the second represented by the decline in oil prices in the global market, and the ensuing repercussions that were not easy represented by displacement and the weakening of the financial and economic capabilities of the state by about Public".[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hindawi continues, "The second strategy, which was launched from 2018 to 2022, also achieved some of the goals after the poverty rate decreased during the first year from 22.5% to 19%."[/size]
[size=45]However, Al-Hindawi indicated that “the percentage has risen again as a result of Iraq entering a new double crisis, the first represented by the spread of the Corona pandemic, and the second represented by the financial crisis that resulted in the stopping of projects and the paralysis of the economic movement during the years 2020 and 2021.”[/size]
[size=45]He believes that “the failure to achieve all the goals of the strategy does not lie in the policies it includes, but rather in the reality and challenges for Iraq, in addition to the political conditions that had effects on the development scene, and the best evidence of this is the demonstrations that Iraq witnessed during 2019 and the subsequent change of government and the delay in its formation.” The political impasse and the absence of a budget for the years 2020 and 2022.[/size]
[size=45]Al-Hindawi concluded, “These challenges cannot be underestimated as they stood as an obstacle to the implementation of plans, but we aspire to conditions that appear to be better in the coming years, which will be reflected positively with regard to the implementation of strategic plans or what is related to the implementation of other plans and development policies set by the Ministry.” planning».[/size]
[size=45]For his part, Representative Amir Al-Mamouri said, "The ministerial curriculum of the government of Muhammad Shia'a Al-Sudani included in one of its paragraphs the confrontation of poverty."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mamouri continued, "The mechanism included in the curriculum is to assist the unemployed in finding job opportunities to absorb unemployment."[/size]
[size=45]And he talked about "new reasons that led to a rise in poverty rates, the first of which is related to the government's decision to raise the price of the dollar to 1450 dinars, and the issue has now been exacerbated by the emergency rise."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mamouri explained, "The Ministry of Labor did not obtain the necessary allocations, which would help it find radical solutions to unemployment with the cessation of employment processes in state institutions and the continuation of the graduation of large numbers of colleges and institutes."[/size]
[size=45]And he indicated that "poverty in Iraq takes more than one form, including among the families of orphans and widows, as well as graduates who did not get a job opportunity."[/size]
[size=45]Al-Mamouri criticized, "It is the lack of vision and the absence of a policy of successive governments that led to a rise in the poverty rate compared to what it was in 2013."[/size]
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