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United Nations: Failed Five-Year Development Plan in Iraq
On: Sun 05/06/2012 7:13
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United Nations announced that five-year plan for the failure in Iraq, pointing to recast once again taking advantage of mistakes. The government has allocated $ 186 billion five-year plan for the implementation of which $ 100 billion of public budgets of the country and the remaining $ 86 billion of investment projects of local and foreign.
And between the central bank five-year plan adopted by the government dominated by theoretical and shall address the impediments to its implementation as soon as possible for the advancement of economic development in the country.
with said UNDP Administrator of the United Nations in Iraq, Peter Batchelor's "Twilight News" that there is a reformulation of the Five-Year Plan of national prepared by the Iraqi government in 2010 for lack of statistics and numbers to the database. "
The Ministry of Planning announced earlier that the five-year plan starting from 2013 to 2017 because of political differences and security situation.
said Batchelor that based on the lessons from the five-year plan and we as the United Nations We support the Government to implement the plan there are mistakes that we brought from the first plan and we will learn not to repeat these errors.
and Iraqi authorities must first make a census before the implementation of five-year plan of development.
and centered the dispute over the census basis on the province of Kirkuk its components multiple of Turkmen, Arabs and Kurds and the Nineveh province, multi-component is the other.
was conducted last census in Iraq in 1987, followed by a census last in 1997 but did not include the three governorates of the Kurdistan region.
He Batchelor that "the situation in Iraq is getting worse, but the distribution (percentages) of poverty is important among the different governorates, and we as the United Nations Information good for all the provinces and the distribution of poverty. "
The Ministry of Planning in the past that the province of Muthanna, the most poorest in the Iraqi provinces, followed by Diwaniya and Salahuddin, Dhi Qar, respectively.
According to the Ministry of Planning, the alleviation of poverty need $ 30 billion in the budget of 2012, as recommended by the Central Bank .
and announced that the United Nations Mission in Iraq that the rate of poverty in Iraq up to 23% confirmed they are working on creating job opportunities for young people in the oil and gas sectors and capacity building of government institutions to benefit from the experience.
said Batchelor, "We as the United Nations with the assistance of the Ministry of Planning, we surveyed included 30 thousand house and therefore we plan to alleviate poverty, but with the census is very important, and we got the information on the geographical distribution of poverty. "
Since 2003, postponed the census from 2007 to 2009 and then to 24 October 2010 and finally to the fifth of December , before the recent Cabinet decision to delay it indefinitely.
Batchelor concluded his speech, "we can work at the district levels and to enable communities to develop plans in their provinces to alleviate poverty.
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