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Basri: International Budget transparency report puts Iraq in the ranks of late
01/22/2013 12:00 am
Lack of awareness of the importance of disclosure
BAGHDAD - Yasser incumbent - Haider Flaih Rubaie
sources responsible for the (morning) for the report to be published by Foundation budget transparency World Day assesses the performance and transparency of spending the money allocated in the budgets of more than 90 countries including Iraq, has hinted sources sequence Iraq in that report appended list of countries referred to, attributing the cause to poor indicators of budget transparency in Iraq, which said it did not return to the presence of legal difficulties or artistic possibilities, but not to recognize its importance. was (Organization Partnership budget International) issued a report on the questionnaire Open Budget for 2010, which is the only criterion systematic and comparative and independent to determine the transparency and accountability of the budgets of public all over the world, and is issued every two years by independent experts is loyal to the national governments, the report reveals that 74 countries from 94 countries are subject to assessment, fail in achieving basic standards of transparency and accountability of the national budgets, and this opens the door to misuse public money inappropriately, where he reported to be the worst performance in the use of transparent budgets included both China and Saudi Arabia, Equatorial Guinea, Senegal and Iraq which provided little information . said Dean Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform, Dr. Kamal Al-Basri was already STOMACH that has in the years 2008.2009 definitely need to build the Ministry of Finance the principle of transparency in the preparation and implementation of the federal budget, and in 2010 obtained the support of the Minister of Finance to appeal, but devices Ministry and internal reasons lagged the implementation of that, calling the Ministry of Finance to assume publish all documents budget and are accessible to the citizens and all stakeholders and the issuance of a booklet suggested termed (budget citizen) shows the federal budget in a simplified all citizens suggesting that the Institute baptized in the last year volunteers to issue " balancing citizen "was donated to the ministry, pointing at the same time that the absence of budget transparency is incompatible with the spirit of the Constitution (which states that public money belongs to the citizens), and with the international commitments of Iraq transparency information. explained Basri, said the lack of transparency contributed to the inefficient use of public money , then the widening gap between the citizen and the political elite, so it is very important to disseminate information issued by the Ministry of Finance annually, according to the Financial Administration Act and on the website of the ministry, warning that continuing low index transparent federal budget, along with high corruption index, and failure indicators business economic issued international institutions, will deprive Iraq of investment opportunities companies sober in the Iraqi economy which contributes to blocking the transport of production technology and management practices developed and developing the private sector. Though obtain visual information already published in the media about low sequence Iraq in the level of transparency of the general budget , but he deliberately to develop a series of solutions, which he said applies to the reality of the Iraqi economy by, and working on resolving some of the problems relating to transparency budget the other hand, a proposal to issue a report pre-budget preparation (strategic budget) which includes display targets economic and fiscal policies of the government In the medium term and long term, and shows revenue projections, expenditures and deficit or surplus and debt, stressing the need to publish this report at least one month to submit the draft budget, as well as publishing monthly reports that can show progress in the application of the budget, as it should be issued in within ((three weeks)) from the end of each month, include amounts of revenues and expenses each month and how long it passed a year until the date of the preparation of reports and should be compared to the figures of what is expected from income and monthly expenses, must also reports contain information about the activity Alaguetradi government , stressing at the same time the importance of issuing mid-year report provides a comprehensive overview of the implementation and performance of the budget for the current year and for the two fiscal years following, at least, must be issued within six weeks from the end of the first half of the fiscal year, this report contains a comprehensive discussion of financial assets and liabilities government assets non-financial allocations pensions and emergency, noting that the disclosure of the impact of any government decision, or any other circumstances that would impact materially on the budget. focused visual that budget transparency need to report year-end, which is the document accountability essential for the government and should be subject to scrutiny by the highest institution in the field of auditing and issued within six months from the end of the fiscal year, the report shows the extent to which the level of income and expenditure approved by Parliament in the budget and any amendment to the budget of origin during the year, and provides a formula that exactly match the formula to provide the budget, as The report documents the performance of non-financial and objectives actual results achieved, as well as view expenditure data formats total and deduct income allocated and costs users clearly, as well as display data spending by the administrative body, and a comprehensive discussion of the assets. was the Iraqi Institute for Economic Reform had reached during the seminar organized on Iraq's budget for the current year 2013 to a range of points, notably that this year's budget was formulated with the same previous approach which does not include a strategic plan, but a primitive way calculations are purely not take into account the depletion of oil wealth and the right of future generations, noting that inflation operating expenses amounted rate compensation staff (including salaries, wages and allowances, salaries and bonus pensions) 51.42 percent of the total operating expenses and growth rate for the previous year amounted to 6.84 percent, said participants at the seminar that I attended (morning) that the estimated deficit in the budget rose from 14.7 in 2012 to 19.12 trillion dinars year 2013, a growth rate of 30 percent while all the previous budgets, implemented with a surplus. Experts agreed economists who participated in the seminar that the customization is still by sectors away from economic fundamentals aimed to reform has won important sectors such as education to 9.23 percent (note that accounted for 87 percent of operational this sector allocations) and the environment and health sector 4.93 percent and the construction and housing sector 1.18 percent.
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