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Planning expects high poverty rate to more than 30%
04/20/2015
BAGHDAD
I expected the Iraqi Ministry of Planning, on Sunday, high rates of poverty among Iraqis to more than 30% during the past three months after a wave of displacement in a number of provinces, as suggested lower that ratio if the unstable security situation.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Planning Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi said in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The recent wave of displacement of a number of provinces and the latest of which was the displacement of the citizens of Anbar province will increase the rates of poverty in Iraq to the highest, which we recorded year-end 2014."
He added Hindawi that "expected percentages of poverty rates are to rise to about 30.5% over the past three months," he said, adding that "these percentages may be reduced if the security situation in areas where displaced citizens, including stabilized as well as activating the stalled investment projects because of financial hardship as a result of reduced global oil prices. "
The Iraqi Ministry of Planning has announced, (July 18, 2014), that the poverty rate in Iraq nearly 19%, and confirmed that part of the population lives in extreme poverty, and as pointed out that Iraq has improved a lot in recent times On the one hand provide food security, as an economist loss of Iraq of gross domestic product as the "10 percent" due to military operations in the northern and western regions, warning of the risk control terrorism on the dams.
The Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, Iraq, had announced (14 May 2013), a decline of poverty rates in Iraq during the past years, and suggested that the poverty in Iraq, the level of up to about 18 percent.
It recognized the Ministry of Planning in (12 May 2013), the failure of the five-year plan developed by 2010 years (2010- 2014), which aims to reduce the disparities between urban and rural areas, and increase the gross domestic product, stressing that Iraq is still far from the border drawn by the United Nations.
It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Planning, announced in the (June 2011), the percentage of the poverty level in Iraq amounted to about ( 23%), which means that a quarter of Iraq's population living below the poverty line, including nearly 5 percent live in extreme poverty, while indicated on the third of June 2012, that the statistics confirmed that the unemployment rate in Iraqi society was ( 16) percent.
The suffering of Iraq large unemployment, both among young people who are capable class to work or among university graduates, and believed many economists that the statistical estimates for these young people do not necessarily reflect reality actually located, as the country suffers, a severe crisis in the housing due to the growing population , compared with the number of residential complexes, in addition to the inability of citizens with limited income from the construction of its own housing units, because of the high cost of land and construction materials, while experiencing a lot of neighborhoods and areas of the capital Baghdad, according to observers and specialists affairs service, deterioration evident in poor services to urban and health and service level , while the allocation of large financial budgets for these purposes.
The head of the Shiite Endowment Alaa al-Moussawi has expressed, on Sunday, lamented the wave of large displacement of Anbar province because of the control of the organization (Daash) on some areas of the province, as called for all ministries to relief to the displaced, the face of Shiite mosques and mosques associated Emiri receive them and provide all the services to them.
He called the Sunni Endowment President Mahmoud Sumaidaie, Saturday (April 18, 2015), the government and security forces to facilitate the entry of displaced from Anbar province to the capital Baghdad and other provinces, and warned of the entry "lurking" with them, As a student to provide tribes with weapons.
It is noteworthy that the organization (Daash) controls the most prominent cities of Anbar almost a year ago on the events and battles and confrontations between security and tribal forces and highlighted the areas that are under the control of the organization is Fallujah and Qaim border between Iraq and Syria, Hit, Rawa and other ways, including vine near the borders of the capital, Baghdad, Fallujah.
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04/20/2015
BAGHDAD
I expected the Iraqi Ministry of Planning, on Sunday, high rates of poverty among Iraqis to more than 30% during the past three months after a wave of displacement in a number of provinces, as suggested lower that ratio if the unstable security situation.
A spokesman for the Ministry of Planning Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi said in an interview to the (long-Presse), "The recent wave of displacement of a number of provinces and the latest of which was the displacement of the citizens of Anbar province will increase the rates of poverty in Iraq to the highest, which we recorded year-end 2014."
He added Hindawi that "expected percentages of poverty rates are to rise to about 30.5% over the past three months," he said, adding that "these percentages may be reduced if the security situation in areas where displaced citizens, including stabilized as well as activating the stalled investment projects because of financial hardship as a result of reduced global oil prices. "
The Iraqi Ministry of Planning has announced, (July 18, 2014), that the poverty rate in Iraq nearly 19%, and confirmed that part of the population lives in extreme poverty, and as pointed out that Iraq has improved a lot in recent times On the one hand provide food security, as an economist loss of Iraq of gross domestic product as the "10 percent" due to military operations in the northern and western regions, warning of the risk control terrorism on the dams.
The Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, Iraq, had announced (14 May 2013), a decline of poverty rates in Iraq during the past years, and suggested that the poverty in Iraq, the level of up to about 18 percent.
It recognized the Ministry of Planning in (12 May 2013), the failure of the five-year plan developed by 2010 years (2010- 2014), which aims to reduce the disparities between urban and rural areas, and increase the gross domestic product, stressing that Iraq is still far from the border drawn by the United Nations.
It is noteworthy that the Ministry of Planning, announced in the (June 2011), the percentage of the poverty level in Iraq amounted to about ( 23%), which means that a quarter of Iraq's population living below the poverty line, including nearly 5 percent live in extreme poverty, while indicated on the third of June 2012, that the statistics confirmed that the unemployment rate in Iraqi society was ( 16) percent.
The suffering of Iraq large unemployment, both among young people who are capable class to work or among university graduates, and believed many economists that the statistical estimates for these young people do not necessarily reflect reality actually located, as the country suffers, a severe crisis in the housing due to the growing population , compared with the number of residential complexes, in addition to the inability of citizens with limited income from the construction of its own housing units, because of the high cost of land and construction materials, while experiencing a lot of neighborhoods and areas of the capital Baghdad, according to observers and specialists affairs service, deterioration evident in poor services to urban and health and service level , while the allocation of large financial budgets for these purposes.
The head of the Shiite Endowment Alaa al-Moussawi has expressed, on Sunday, lamented the wave of large displacement of Anbar province because of the control of the organization (Daash) on some areas of the province, as called for all ministries to relief to the displaced, the face of Shiite mosques and mosques associated Emiri receive them and provide all the services to them.
He called the Sunni Endowment President Mahmoud Sumaidaie, Saturday (April 18, 2015), the government and security forces to facilitate the entry of displaced from Anbar province to the capital Baghdad and other provinces, and warned of the entry "lurking" with them, As a student to provide tribes with weapons.
It is noteworthy that the organization (Daash) controls the most prominent cities of Anbar almost a year ago on the events and battles and confrontations between security and tribal forces and highlighted the areas that are under the control of the organization is Fallujah and Qaim border between Iraq and Syria, Hit, Rawa and other ways, including vine near the borders of the capital, Baghdad, Fallujah.
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