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The Iraqis are dependent on construction alternatives due to rising prices of imported materials
30-05-2015 02:30 PM
Many citizens in Iraq looking for alternatives in various walks of life to reduce the financial burden in light of the deterioration of the living conditions in the country.
These alternatives were not limited to food, Alambls but exceeded to housing and construction processes, to spread in Iraq recently what is known popularly alternatives to construction, through dispensing cement and bricks (building material made of burnt bricks in special furnaces) and even iron the new armament, who was replaced Bmstkhrjat of buildings demolished. He says Ahmed Abbas, the owner of a construction offices and selling construction materials in the capital Baghdad, many Iraqis have begun relying on alternatives in building houses, due to higher prices of imported materials such as cement and rebar.
Abbas explains that the price of a ton of iron up to 603 thousand dinars ($ 500), the nation imported cement to 175 thousand dinars ($ 145).
He points out that higher prices make citizen looking for alternatives and found in the stone that brings from the mountainous regions, a substitute for bricks, as well as the local white plaster (gypsum), which results in a number of provinces substitute for imported cement, and this is replaced all the materials high prices another alternative with low prices.
He also points out that the price of shipment stone that is brought and cut from the mountains of between 250 thousand dinars and 350 thousand dinars (between 207 and $ 290), while the price of bricks and measured a thousand small unit to 400 thousand dinars (US $ 332).
And it confirms that the little house needs to be at least 20 thousand pieces bricks, and these prices are considered too high and cost millions of dinars for low-income people, while the stone would cost a quarter of these prices.
Abbas added that the use of these alternative materials was weak in previous periods, but the financial crisis reflected on the construction and real estate sector, and has become much prefer the old and cheap method in construction.
And became Iraq's economy on the brink of collapse, because of financial corruption that squandered tens of billions of dollars over the past years, during the reign of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, as well as the face of the country's fiscal deficit due to a decline in oil prices in global markets, and the cost of the war against 'Daash', which Possession in the wide areas west and north of the country.
According to official data, the Iraqi budget for the current year 2015, amounting to about $ 105 billion, registered a deficit of $ 21 billion.
According to workers in the construction sector, the reliance on alternatives exceeded stones, and become workers in the sector depend on what is known as B'alhdid clamp ', an iron extracted from old buildings demolished and recycled, where they are cut up into small parts and delivered some for by linking them to cut other ores, to get ready for operations plaster molding materials in the roofs.
He says economic expert, Omar al-Obeidi, the Iraqi asylum comes to alternatives because of the financial crisis and stop many local companies for work, as well as rising prices of construction materials imported from cement and bricks and iron construction. He adds Obeidi, that the alternative provides a big difference in price, for up between the new iron and counterpart recycled from old houses to $ 400 per ton.
He continues that the scarcity of funds in the market and among the citizens, undermined the movement of construction, and the payment of the special office holders construction to alternative provision, stressing that the purchasing power of the Iraqi citizen declined during the past few months a great extent and the movement of the markets affected are the other because of the fear of many citizens, which will accrue to the situation in Iraq with Carr fled in the war against 'Daash'.
Statements from the Iraqi Ministry of Planning and show recently, to reach the poverty rate in Iraq about 30%, while estimated by unofficial sources about 40% equivalent to 10 million people, because of financial corruption and a wave of displacement that has gripped Iraq finally crashes 40% of the energies of Iraq.
A report by Transparency International in 2014, has stated that Iraq occupies the sixth place among the most corrupt countries in the world. According to reports of the Finance Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, the volume of financial waste that was during the reign of al-Maliki in about 9 years ago, reached $ 109 billion has been channeled to projects approved by the government and turned out to be fake, and most of them were awarded for his relatives and friends.
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30-05-2015 02:30 PM
Many citizens in Iraq looking for alternatives in various walks of life to reduce the financial burden in light of the deterioration of the living conditions in the country.
These alternatives were not limited to food, Alambls but exceeded to housing and construction processes, to spread in Iraq recently what is known popularly alternatives to construction, through dispensing cement and bricks (building material made of burnt bricks in special furnaces) and even iron the new armament, who was replaced Bmstkhrjat of buildings demolished. He says Ahmed Abbas, the owner of a construction offices and selling construction materials in the capital Baghdad, many Iraqis have begun relying on alternatives in building houses, due to higher prices of imported materials such as cement and rebar.
Abbas explains that the price of a ton of iron up to 603 thousand dinars ($ 500), the nation imported cement to 175 thousand dinars ($ 145).
He points out that higher prices make citizen looking for alternatives and found in the stone that brings from the mountainous regions, a substitute for bricks, as well as the local white plaster (gypsum), which results in a number of provinces substitute for imported cement, and this is replaced all the materials high prices another alternative with low prices.
He also points out that the price of shipment stone that is brought and cut from the mountains of between 250 thousand dinars and 350 thousand dinars (between 207 and $ 290), while the price of bricks and measured a thousand small unit to 400 thousand dinars (US $ 332).
And it confirms that the little house needs to be at least 20 thousand pieces bricks, and these prices are considered too high and cost millions of dinars for low-income people, while the stone would cost a quarter of these prices.
Abbas added that the use of these alternative materials was weak in previous periods, but the financial crisis reflected on the construction and real estate sector, and has become much prefer the old and cheap method in construction.
And became Iraq's economy on the brink of collapse, because of financial corruption that squandered tens of billions of dollars over the past years, during the reign of former Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, as well as the face of the country's fiscal deficit due to a decline in oil prices in global markets, and the cost of the war against 'Daash', which Possession in the wide areas west and north of the country.
According to official data, the Iraqi budget for the current year 2015, amounting to about $ 105 billion, registered a deficit of $ 21 billion.
According to workers in the construction sector, the reliance on alternatives exceeded stones, and become workers in the sector depend on what is known as B'alhdid clamp ', an iron extracted from old buildings demolished and recycled, where they are cut up into small parts and delivered some for by linking them to cut other ores, to get ready for operations plaster molding materials in the roofs.
He says economic expert, Omar al-Obeidi, the Iraqi asylum comes to alternatives because of the financial crisis and stop many local companies for work, as well as rising prices of construction materials imported from cement and bricks and iron construction. He adds Obeidi, that the alternative provides a big difference in price, for up between the new iron and counterpart recycled from old houses to $ 400 per ton.
He continues that the scarcity of funds in the market and among the citizens, undermined the movement of construction, and the payment of the special office holders construction to alternative provision, stressing that the purchasing power of the Iraqi citizen declined during the past few months a great extent and the movement of the markets affected are the other because of the fear of many citizens, which will accrue to the situation in Iraq with Carr fled in the war against 'Daash'.
Statements from the Iraqi Ministry of Planning and show recently, to reach the poverty rate in Iraq about 30%, while estimated by unofficial sources about 40% equivalent to 10 million people, because of financial corruption and a wave of displacement that has gripped Iraq finally crashes 40% of the energies of Iraq.
A report by Transparency International in 2014, has stated that Iraq occupies the sixth place among the most corrupt countries in the world. According to reports of the Finance Committee in the Iraqi Council of Representatives, the volume of financial waste that was during the reign of al-Maliki in about 9 years ago, reached $ 109 billion has been channeled to projects approved by the government and turned out to be fake, and most of them were awarded for his relatives and friends.
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