Iraq is facing poverty and unemployment Pastratjah based on social security and international aid

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Iraq is facing poverty and unemployment Pastratjah based on social security and international aid

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Iraq is facing poverty and unemployment Pastratjah based on social security and international aid

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Long-Presse / Baghdad

, Confirmed the Ministry of Planning, said Tuesday that the takeover (Daesh) over a wide area of Iraq, raising the poverty rate to 23 percent, indicating that it will adopt a new strategy for the period 2017-2021 to combat it through investment funds to finance projects and create new jobs, especially for the displaced, while the Ministry of Labour and social Affairs confirmed that the protection carried out by the network contributed to the reduction of poverty, revealing its cooperation with the World Bank to reduce unemployment and the unification of the public pension fund with the pension fund and social security to the private sector.

Planning: Daesh exacerbated poverty in Iraq

Attributed the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, the high rate of poverty in Iraq to 23 percent, to seize the organization (Daesh) over a wide area of the country, and the displacement of four million people, including, as the displaced make up 36 percent of the poor, indicating that it will adopt a new strategy to combat poverty for the period from 2017 to 2021, involves finding investment funds financed by international grants.

The press spokesman for the ministry, Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi, said in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The poverty rate in Iraq as much as 23 percent," adding that "the poverty rate increased after the 2014 events and the takeover Daesh terrorist gangs on large areas of Iraq, and the displacement of four million of them. "

He said al-Hindawi, the "displaced make up 36 percent of the total poor people in Iraq," noting that "poverty brings about striking in the provinces of Nineveh, Anbar and Salah al-Din, to 41 percent of the total number of poor people in Iraq."

He explained spokesman of the Ministry of Planning, said: "The poverty rate also rose in the southern provinces to 31 percent, the same percentage as in Diyala province, while the rate in the center and south of 17 percent," pointing out that "the rate of poverty in the capital of 14 percent in the Kurdistan region of 13 percent. "

The al-Hindawi, that "the Ministry of Planning and seeks to implement a new structure to address poverty and reduce the rate after the completion of the last strategy," he continued that "the ministry will adopt a new strategy for the period from 2017 to 2021, involves finding investment funds to finance anti-poverty projects, funded by international grants and will be allocated funds for this purpose in the budget of 2017, that has displaced a priority. "

He went on, the spokesman of the Ministry of Planning, said, "The unemployment rate reached 20 percent due to the repercussions of the security and financial conditions," returned "It is not easy to talk about the appointments in government departments because they suffer from a very large slouch in the presence of four million employees."

And saw al-Hindawi, that "the focus on tackling unemployment will go towards the private sector," expected to "contribute to the private sector in a large estimated to provide jobs for the unemployed graduates and others."

Work: cooperate with the World Bank to unify the retirement of public and private sectors

The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, the Social Protection carried out by the network contributed to the reduction of poverty in Iraq, indicating that it is cooperating with the World Bank to reduce unemployment and the unification of the pension fund and social security and public retirement.

He said the Division of Information official in the ministry, Prince Nassif, in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The first ministry steps to reduce the rate of poverty and unemployment, is the implementation of Law No. 11 of 2014, on Social Protection", noting that "the social welfare network offering subsidies to 2.0005 million thousand people. "

Nassif said that "in the current 2016 budget includes 450 thousand new family welfare," noting that "the ministry targeted subsidies in the most impoverished areas in southern Iraq, particularly in Dhi Qar, Maysan, followed by areas occupied by al Daesh."

Revealed Information Officer, for "the ministry has sought, through the relevant departments, such as those involved in vocational training, operating, loans, retirement, social security, reduction of unemployment in the country the proportion," stressing that "the ministry is cooperating with the World Bank in this regard as it suggested a project to unify Fund retirement, social security and public retirement to be the amount that gives a retiree, both in the private sector or the public united. "

He said Nassif, "The ministry revealed the existence of 126 thousand person gets a salary of social benefit, despite litigation by a pension or as an employee, and was able to restore those funds to be distributed to families owed and reduce the number of poor people, which amounts to about six million people," adding that "the law the new grants each receivable 105 thousand dinars social subsidy if sufficient funds are available because of the economic crisis turned without realizing it. "

The Director General of the strategy of poverty in Iraq, Naglaa Ali, said in an interview with the (long-Presse), in (the twentieth of July 2016), said the government is currently working on a new strategy after the monitoring done in the previous strategy, indicating that the control of the organization (Daesh) the three provinces raising the poverty ratio to 41 percent, and at the national level to 23 percent. "

The Secretary General of the Council of Ministers, Mahdi Keywords, announced in (the twentieth of July 2016), the preparation of a national strategy for poverty alleviation in Iraq for the next four years, while the success of Iraq emphasized reducing poverty through strategic carried out for the period from 2010 to 2014, passed up the poverty rate after the control of the organization (Daesh) on large tracts of Iraqi territory.

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