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Knesset Finance: budget 2012 will take account of increased pensions and employment
On: Fri 1/22/2012 8:42
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parliamentary Finance Committee confirmed that it will take into account in the budget year 2012 to increase pensions and the provision of employment opportunities through increased government employment and covered by a network of social welfare, as pointed out that the budget will amount to 117 trillion Iraqi dinars.
Committee Chairman Haidar Abadi, "Alsumaria News", "The Finance Committee will take into account three things in the current budget for the current year 2012, increase the salaries of retirees, and increase employment opportunities through government employment, as well as the increase covered by a network of social welfare," adding that "the financial allocations will be through transfers between sections of the exchange without affecting the state and provide services. "
He said Abbadi "The Finance Committee is seeking to close the debate on the budget for the current year and presented to parliament this weekend," noting that "the budget allocations this year will amount to 117 trillion Iraqi dinars. "
declared the General Secretariat of the Council of Ministers (5 December 2011), the Council voted on the draft budget in 2012, worth $ 100 billion.
The Finance Minister Rafie al-Issawi said, on 8 December 2011, the balance of 2012 will not see any increase in the salaries of employees or retirees, pointing out that the issue of increases on salaries is the most important files objectionable International Monetary Fund.
to that welcomed the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs, by the House of Representatives on the law of support for small income-generating, and is relied upon to address part of the the problem of unemployment, comes amid warnings of the repercussions of the political crisis on the Iraqi economy and high rates of poverty in Iraq.
The Minister of Labour and Social Affairs Nassar al-Rubaie, according to (Radio Free Iraq), that the law to support small projects is part of the policy document, the National Employment, calling on ministries all coordination and cooperation with the ministry to implement the provisions of this document.
The aim of the policy document the National Employment approved by the Council of Ministers last year to create jobs for the unemployed and accelerate development efforts aimed at reducing the growing unemployment and poverty alleviation.
Rubaie said that the national employment policy linking strategies of the national development plan for the years 2010 and 2014 and a strategy to reduce poverty rates in Iraqi society, pointing to a number of seminars and meetings to implement the plan the most recent seminar held in Istanbul in coordination and cooperation with the United Nations Office for Project Services and the ILO.
include national employment policy of many plans and projects, including loans agricultural support programs for widows and bill support small income-generating voted by Parliament in session last Thursday. According to a statement issued by the Parliament, the law aims to reduce the volume of unemployment and the expansion of the culture of self-employment and entrepreneurship and to encourage individual initiative and private.
ruled out al-Rubaie enable the government to eliminate the problem of unemployment completely because it is not a new phenomenon, but the structure, pointing out the inability of the economic sectors in Iraq to create jobs and opportunities the work.
He pointed out the need to improve the national economy and promote agricultural sectors, industrial and investment.
and confirms the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Nassar al-Rubaie that, although the unemployment rate from 15% to 11%, and the government's efforts to reduce to 7% in 2014, but that depends on the allocations financial and stimulate private sector investment and the reduction of foreign labor.
In the absence of government statistics minute Economists believe that the unemployment rate of not less than 35% in Iraq, and this is what the economist Abdul Rahman al-Mashhadani, from the repercussions of political crisis on the Iraqi economy will increase the high rates of poverty, unemployment, crime and drug abuse and others.
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