Planning: industrial census includes public and private sector soon
Date: Mon 02/01/2012 6:30
□ Baghdad / follow-up term economic
announced the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation close to start preparations of the census of industrial year in the country.
said the spokesman of the Ministry of Planning Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that "the Ministry of Planning are starting preparations an industrial census year, which will include all industrial facilities in the public and private sectors, "noting that" the results of the census will be adopted in the areas of industrial and economic development in the country. "
The Hindawi that "the census industry comes the need to identify the most important obstacles that stand in front of the industry in Iraq, along with a focus on counting the number of employees in industry in the private and public sectors."
Iraq has been a significant decline in the manufacturing sector as a result of long years of embargo and sanctions, Add to that the consumption of imported goods dominated the domestic production after dumping the commodity in the market in various goods, and the origins of many, at the time lacked the country to the industrial cities typically have the specifications of the protection of the environment.
and the Hindawi that "Statistics will include all Iraqi provinces in coordination with the Kurdistan region will be schedule the vote by the ministry in the coming weeks. "
Economists say that the reality of industrial projects produced in Iraq has dropped by studies by 66% for the years before 2003 because of the flow of foreign goods to the markets of the country, stressing that the factories in Iraq caused abating disable more than 13 thousand workers, which confused the government's efforts to transform the Iraqi economy to free market economy.
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