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World Bank: any priorities in support of Iraq?
Posted 23/05/2012 08:47 AM
Abbas Ghalibi *
In an interview implicit recently with a group of Iraqi journalists team the World Bank headed by Executive Director of Middle East programs Hadi top, we found out that what was rumored before the intervention of the World Bank and imposed conditions of reform in the off financial support for development projects in Iraq,
There was an incorrect justifications adduced by the circles of political and economic even do not know what it wants and purpose, at the time that Iraq is in desperate need of such international institutions play a solid developmental and social tasks in the world, especially the young aspirant countries to enter the market economy.
Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in future World Bank representative in the upper Hadi of Baghdad two days ago
As much as we do know that the World Bank provides advice and expertise of planning to take, however, administrative bodies to the institutional work first and then the development of these departments to make them capable of good governance according to the principles of governance, which translates these tasks according to studies and work programs supported by the World Bank financially and technically, may take into projects in specific sectors, but they were not according to Hui beneficiary countries, but has to be convictions of the World Bank of the importance and feasibility of these projects without interference from the merits of the work, plans and economic visions, but the limits of the proposals and give advice, and this was confirmed to us World Bank team visiting Iraq, who has denied the rumors of pressure put on Iraq in bringing about economic reforms such as raising government support, for example, the ration card as well as petroleum products or not to continue to support the salaries of government employees, and other forms of government support, the other, which may contribute to raising the levels of inflation.
and about, we believe that Iraq could move, especially economic decision in which closer cooperation and communication with such so an international organization to benefit from the experiences offered on a platter of gold as well as dealing with the experiences of the World Bank carried out in other countries, especially similar to conditions in Iraq and the transfer of these experiences came into the application with the taking into account the features and advantages of the national economy and assay the social dimensions of projects in Iraq, so that the World Bank is the institution concerned to undertake the upgrading of the march of development and social development in countries, which is an important goal of the World Bank very important, may be a feature absent from the eyes of many politicians and economists, at a time when he finishes the mind that the World Bank is the financing institution lending no more, contrary to what you are talking about ABC work of this Organization.
and that we aspire to him, in fact, to adopt the World Bank in Iraq's priorities for action and the nature of the projects in Iraq in the future and identification of needs pressing economic sectors, and we suggest that in this direction so they can be to deal with the productive sectors of industrial and agricultural priorities first given to the need of the national economy to the activation of these important sectors.
* Editor's economic newspaper "long"
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