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8/25/2015 0:00
in the midst of demonstrations in various Iraqi cities, and between ceilings slogans disparate and sometimes contradictory in other times, the Iraqi decision maker stands confused between what is needed and what is necessary at this critical stage. Under the oil revenues decline again with another drop in world oil prices, and will have to that of deepening imbalance in the general budget, particularly with the growing steadily overhead, on the Iraqi street has to deal with demanding greater wisdom and realize the magnitude of the restrictions on the decision-maker. proportions unemployed in the Iraqi reality, which is currently characterized by high unemployment rates for working with an almost complete stop to the private sector which made the only way to create jobs is to engage in the armies of public sector employees and handcuff the government financial commitments and to engage in a vicious cycle of budget deficits and directing mostly to ongoing to cover expenditure allocations salaries, we find that the entry of government in the event Rkunha to political bids and open the door appointments wide will lead to a breach in the delicate balance of competition between the public and private sectors in a climate of relatively high salaries for the public sector when compared with the wages earned in the private sector, and scaled the desired role of the initiatives successive industrial launched by the government or seeking to launch that. reform programs by one of the most important economic reform mechanisms agreed on necessity of most of the Iraqi people, are the public sector reform and this necessarily mean the privatization of a wide range of public institutions, it represents an integral part of economic reform programs because it represents a radical change of economic policies in order to mobilize domestic resources to achieve economic and social development by easing the burden borne by the state budget and not be continued with the support of many institutions that have proven practical experience during the last years of their inability to keep up with the terms of the new market mechanisms, and therefore public spending tab in more efficient towards strengthening the infrastructure that form the mainstay of the empowerment of the private sector from access to strategic projects to be the first yeast to create a competitive environment for the private sector and strengthen its role in the foundation get the economy moving. But such a procedure requires as a requirement basis gradual take appropriate to enable those institutions steps of the sustainability of the reform, being seen as the partnership as an ongoing relationship with no fixed time limit or may be for long periods of time. that any future government policies should be in accordance with the structure integrated within the timetable thoughtful carefully to avoid resources that adhere to rapidly waste and extravagance to achieve political outbidding be of long-term impact, and must be for the maker of the economic decision to avoid yielding to political bargaining and the independence of its decision in order to achieve optimal feasibility of the allocation of economic resources. It can not be a balance between the desire for a public street and to demand the government to provide government support almost completely to the community and the urgent need to adapt the support and increase its effectiveness by directing the right image to the target groups exclusively they can be adequately circulate utility to new segments of the society. Adjust spending There is also a Aware of the fact that the only way to reduce the budget in Iraq deficit is expanding and diversifying public revenue sources of non-oil conjunction with adjusting public spending, and to diversify sources of revenue requires a specific mechanism to find alternatives in line with the reality in Iraq, which suffers a number of imbalances limit the government's ability to find sources other than rents put oil to finance its activities. We find, for example, the dominance of indirect taxes on the tax structure in Iraq, which indicates to bear all segments of society and without exception the tax burden represented by the high prices of various commodities, something that we have seen in the Iraqi street during the last few days of a sharp rise in prices of some commodities food and even experience a tax on prepaid mobile phone cards that have been moved burden to citizens without affecting profit phone companies mobile. that the state should use its financial instruments, Bugeaha of spending and taxes simultaneously and consistently, due to their role in achieving some of the goals Economic and contribute in one way or another in the process of economic reform through the reform of the investment program at the expense of operating expenses and this requires an effective and capable private sector to employ existing with financial institutions unemployment able to encourage this sector at reasonable cost and to develop an acceptable mechanism to diversify its public revenue sources of non-oil are socially acceptable and to avoid the transfer of burden to individuals and the community to avoid congestion. * Iraqi academic
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8/25/2015 0:00
in the midst of demonstrations in various Iraqi cities, and between ceilings slogans disparate and sometimes contradictory in other times, the Iraqi decision maker stands confused between what is needed and what is necessary at this critical stage. Under the oil revenues decline again with another drop in world oil prices, and will have to that of deepening imbalance in the general budget, particularly with the growing steadily overhead, on the Iraqi street has to deal with demanding greater wisdom and realize the magnitude of the restrictions on the decision-maker. proportions unemployed in the Iraqi reality, which is currently characterized by high unemployment rates for working with an almost complete stop to the private sector which made the only way to create jobs is to engage in the armies of public sector employees and handcuff the government financial commitments and to engage in a vicious cycle of budget deficits and directing mostly to ongoing to cover expenditure allocations salaries, we find that the entry of government in the event Rkunha to political bids and open the door appointments wide will lead to a breach in the delicate balance of competition between the public and private sectors in a climate of relatively high salaries for the public sector when compared with the wages earned in the private sector, and scaled the desired role of the initiatives successive industrial launched by the government or seeking to launch that. reform programs by one of the most important economic reform mechanisms agreed on necessity of most of the Iraqi people, are the public sector reform and this necessarily mean the privatization of a wide range of public institutions, it represents an integral part of economic reform programs because it represents a radical change of economic policies in order to mobilize domestic resources to achieve economic and social development by easing the burden borne by the state budget and not be continued with the support of many institutions that have proven practical experience during the last years of their inability to keep up with the terms of the new market mechanisms, and therefore public spending tab in more efficient towards strengthening the infrastructure that form the mainstay of the empowerment of the private sector from access to strategic projects to be the first yeast to create a competitive environment for the private sector and strengthen its role in the foundation get the economy moving. But such a procedure requires as a requirement basis gradual take appropriate to enable those institutions steps of the sustainability of the reform, being seen as the partnership as an ongoing relationship with no fixed time limit or may be for long periods of time. that any future government policies should be in accordance with the structure integrated within the timetable thoughtful carefully to avoid resources that adhere to rapidly waste and extravagance to achieve political outbidding be of long-term impact, and must be for the maker of the economic decision to avoid yielding to political bargaining and the independence of its decision in order to achieve optimal feasibility of the allocation of economic resources. It can not be a balance between the desire for a public street and to demand the government to provide government support almost completely to the community and the urgent need to adapt the support and increase its effectiveness by directing the right image to the target groups exclusively they can be adequately circulate utility to new segments of the society. Adjust spending There is also a Aware of the fact that the only way to reduce the budget in Iraq deficit is expanding and diversifying public revenue sources of non-oil conjunction with adjusting public spending, and to diversify sources of revenue requires a specific mechanism to find alternatives in line with the reality in Iraq, which suffers a number of imbalances limit the government's ability to find sources other than rents put oil to finance its activities. We find, for example, the dominance of indirect taxes on the tax structure in Iraq, which indicates to bear all segments of society and without exception the tax burden represented by the high prices of various commodities, something that we have seen in the Iraqi street during the last few days of a sharp rise in prices of some commodities food and even experience a tax on prepaid mobile phone cards that have been moved burden to citizens without affecting profit phone companies mobile. that the state should use its financial instruments, Bugeaha of spending and taxes simultaneously and consistently, due to their role in achieving some of the goals Economic and contribute in one way or another in the process of economic reform through the reform of the investment program at the expense of operating expenses and this requires an effective and capable private sector to employ existing with financial institutions unemployment able to encourage this sector at reasonable cost and to develop an acceptable mechanism to diversify its public revenue sources of non-oil are socially acceptable and to avoid the transfer of burden to individuals and the community to avoid congestion. * Iraqi academic
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