31/05/2015
BAGHDAD / Adel Mahdi
The theme of the private sector strongly present in the panel discussion held by the Baghdad Economic Forum when it began its activities a few days ago in Baghdad, where ideas were put forward almost close in outlook to the Iraqi economy directing supplies to a market economy private Maitalq of the importance of establishing and resettlement of the mechanisms of action to achieve this goal in accordance with the setting priorities and decision-making.
And determines the Chairman of the Forum Fares Al Salman vision to the problems of the Iraqi economy in the important part, the overall outlook to be adopted in the search for before the market economy model taking into account the factors determined by the Al-Salman said:
First, the economic situation and the political and social specificity of Iraq and conditioning reform theory including commensurate with this Privacy Policy.
Second, develop a plan gradual shift towards a market economy in a scientific programmer away from Gorges circumstantial and far from harming any social segment of Iraqi society.
identifies Al Salman also his approach to reach the goal of strategic a market economy based on multiple options as international experiences determined by the experience of Japan and Germany after World War II, and the experience of South Korea after the Korean War and others). And in this area agree spokesman Al Salman with the ideas proposed by Dr Majid picture during the debate that the right model for the Iraqi situation is a social market economy theory also known as social democracy.
Al Salman was keen in this regard much mention several important stations that accompanied the activity of this power or Maysmah political thought, which calls for peaceful and gradual reform of capitalism in light of representative democracy and the rule of law, and say: Democracy is the term (social) later became limited to the advocates of change and the gradual development of the capitalist system, by trying to fix it and make it more equitable and humane, and believes that the democratization ( Social modern) calls to increase workers' rights, and the expansion of economic democracy to ensure adequate rights of joint management of all workers and employees and the application of free public social services such as health, education and care for children and the elderly.
As the social democratic parties in the workers and staff unions where promote programs of reform and negotiation which aims to nail more compensation for staff workers. Adopt democracy (social) mixed economy and social market economy system as democratic mainstream and social organizations reject oppression, poverty and inequality caused by the free market undisciplined as the economy refuses centrally planned.
The work of this trend today on the existing capitalist system reform by combining elements of the socialist system elements of the capitalist system to ensure social justice and building the welfare state.
Social democracy and sees Al Salman to apply Islamic liberal economic thought, as the essence of Islam is the progress the individual and society and to promote collective ego while maintaining the privacy of the individual ego within the limits of personal freedom governed by ethical controls based on the provisions of legitimacy binding in predominantly and optional in some of them with an exceptions-based vacations to force majeure legitimacy.
In the opinion of Al-Salman said countries which provide their constitutions that Islam is the official religion of the State and that the majority of Muslim population did not have the advantage of absorbing the spirit of Islamic thought, but merely the application of the texts did not reflect the economic policy at the very least, noting that there are a lot of leaders of Islamic thought posed a social market economy theory through the look of Islam.
keen Chairman of the Forum Al Salman to emphasize that for the Aaroj Islamic ideology as a religion, because as he put it not from Islamic preachers but raises to discuss the economic outlook in Islam economist as an alternative system based on the spirit of the existing social solidarity on the principle of justice and not on the principle of equality, because justice is the concept of a more comprehensive and achieve equality.
and go Al Salman away to explain his ideas with reference to the Swedish experiment, which represents an integrated system include the political system , economic and social terms presented itself as a third theory in a world split into two camps, socialist and capitalist.
He says that the Swedish experience as a model succeeded in achieving socio-economic balance and the same dish market economy theory according to Swedish privacy time.
The Swedish economic system managed to avoid the economic storms experienced by the European continent.
The Swedish experiment succeeded in achieving social justice in terms of the level of health services, education and housing sectors, pension funds and the distribution of income as well as improved working conditions, and maintained a strong trade unions to defend human power and their rights with a move away from the class struggle and the imposition of social peace and economic through constant consultation between employers and trade unions and the government.
As the Al Salman models for many applications in Europe relating to the economic approach, what is happening in Norway, Iceland, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Italy also singled out Al Salman France by saying:
The French Socialist Party adopted policies social development of French socialism, trying to democratic theory of socialism, a socialism advocated by Mitterrand gathered between faith in democracy and social pragmatism outlook humanitarian and liberal orientation while maintaining private ownership of the means of production privacy. Thus Mitterrand away party for the French Communist Party, who stuck to his principles of Marxism.
He was a member institution body of the forum D.magd the picture may between in his speech that the market economy is the supply and demand and competition free economy, and the liberalization of prices of any limitation except as imposed by free competition is monopolistic. However, the market economy does not mean, in any way, the absence of the public sector and the state's role in the organization of economic life, and in the estimation D.alsouri that the social market economy are summarized and fabricators theory and Mtabgaha Alfred Amark when combining the ideal of justice, freedom and economic growth in a reasonable balanced system ). And translate that into reality by:
(a) the achievement of fair competition and prevent monopoly, with not allowing business operations detrimental to social order.
(b) reducing unemployment and alleviating inflation.
(c) provision of social services.
(d) establish criteria for the work and commitment.
The mechanisms used in that formation depends unions and professional organizations strong. Establish a contribution to the production companies and reconstruction reinforced by banks.
draws D.alsouri that a lot of countries that have applied this approach, such as Germany, Sweden, Austria and some other European countries managed to achieve sustainable economic development and the provision of services to the community with a large proportion of equity in the distribution and redistribution income, as the enterprise body member Abdul Aziz Hassoun called on the private sector participation in the dialogue to be looking at the possibility of providing the same and taking a course and employ its energies away from the government to continue to support its claims.
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