Economists in Basra warn of the repercussions of inflation, population caused by the oil industry

Economists in Basra warn of the repercussions of inflation, population caused by the oil industry



10/3/2014 0 



Alsumaria News / Basra
Economists stressed during a seminar held by the Association of Iraqi economists in the province of Basra , on Thursday, maintaining that inflation is witnessing a big population because of the growing oil industry, which has attracted thousands of workers who have left their home provinces and settled with their families in Basra. Said Assembly President Ali Alaill in an interview for "Alsumaria News", that "a number of experts and researchers who are interested in economic affairs discussed, today, during an economic seminar held at the headquarters of the Assembly, axes related to the oil sector, including the issue of demographic changes resulting from the growing oil industry in Basra , "noting that" licensing contracts and the large number of oil projects has attracted a lot of workers from other provinces, and a large proportion of them brought their families and settled in the province. "
He explained Alaill that "the issue needs further studies and academic research to see the positive aspects and negative accurately," adding that "Basra is suffering from widespread unemployment, and to reduce this phenomenon should commit the government of foreign oil companies to give priority in hiring to people of the province, and if there is no Locally competencies and expertise required can be used hands working from other provinces or from outside Iraq . "

In turn, said an expert in the economics of oil, Dr. Jabbar Hilfi in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "Basra witnessed during the fifties migration from nearby provinces because of the booming industry of dates, has also seen a wave of immigration again during the seventies due to the growth of the oil industry and the development of ports, which are facing A few years ago new immigrant wave caused by the expansion of oil projects and breadth of activity of foreign oil companies, "explaining that" waves of displacement and migration of the three resulted in a change large population, so most of the people of Basra current they are not Besrien basically, especially since a lot of families visual migrated from the province for some political reasons. "

The Hilfi, who was head of the Department of Economic Studies at the University of Basra , that "Basra as lying on the basin massive oil, they are a source of strong attraction for residents of other provinces, but this phenomenon the pros and cons," pointing out that "the most important drawbacks high population density, and for which he has turned a lot of agricultural areas to residential areas, and also stretched the phenomenon of random housing, on the other hand, the SOA infrastructure is not qualified to keep up with inflation, population happening as a result of internal migration, and as a result there are significant problems in the sectors of environment, health and education. "

For his part, said a member of the provincial council F Zaini in an interview for "Alsumaria News", "The problem of unemployment in Basra were still at high levels, while we find the majority of workers in the oil fields they are not conservative," adding that "the oil sector is not alone which attracts Iraqis to Basra from other provinces, but commercial traffic and active work in ports and maritime transport, as well as the relative security and stability enjoyed by the province. "

The Zini, who attended the symposium that "the provincial council person early phenomenon of labor migration to Basra and its negative effects, and try to reduce them by issuing a number of decisions during the current year, including the decision needs to be national oil companies and foreign countries to give priority and preference in employment to the people of the province, and the second-class Iraqis from other provinces, and then to foreigners. "

It is noteworthy that Basra is the center of the oil industry in Iraq, and the most important cities of oil in the world, owns about 59% of Iraq's oil reserves, and has the largest oil fields in Iraq, including the crazy and Rumaila and West Qurna , and through the province exported most of the Iraqi oil-dependent the state budget on the revenue almost entirely, where issued quantities of oil by tankers foreign naval through the ports of al-Amaya and Basra (pristine deep earlier), as well as the three platforms mono-floating (tow and Jekor and Faha), and pumped oil platforms of the three new ports ancient via pipeline network stretching under water and related storage warehouses located near the center of the coastal Faw overlooking the bay.

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