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Posted 23/08/2011 12:00 PM
BAGHDAD (Agencies) said verse and sadness enveloping her face childlike innocent, we do not have "Ntashy" in House It stands in the queue, consisting of a large number of Children walking leisurely get every child has his plate of them to hurt him chef of the amount of (soup Lentils) with a loaf of bread, to serve a dinner that feeds the bodies exhausted, it was the scene That I saw on Friday of the month of Ramadan have raised alarm in me, Is it conceivable that a child stands Nine years old in a queue in one of the mosques in Baghdad to get her dinner, which said That its daily? And ask myself, sadly, how they will get any food on the day if it were not Houses of worship provide food for these poor people and orphans, in the month of Ramadan is also used, with Knowing that home is the home state of black gold full weight and prestige in the global economy, Who was still prey to the ambitions of every man and his dog, and the current government is still in the process of Development of strategies for poverty eradication !
When she saw a sign that I or starts to talk With her daughter made me inquire about my situation which I told her I just want to identify any conditions Living and nothing else, and when I learned or state (a press) took the same to me complaining Said :
- Abu Aya died after the blast, which solution thoracic region, where he was working for the Fruit vendor, has left me six sons, most of them did not enter the school, including small State because the school or by any number of expenses you need to, and they live in a place like Bait in place of stone and tin pieces in the fourth, police, and that many parties Threatening aspiration because they encroaching on the land owned by the Municipality of Baghdad, and it's heads of households From a small area planted to vegetables help the elderly neighbor Sheikh was also suffering from Prosecution and vacuum, and what you get from the money the family could not meet the breath of seven Members, are six sons who are older than the oldest is 14 years old, and they come to Mosques for a meal (breakfast) with some of her children and take them to the rest (breakfast Safri ) , And when I told her why not drop the social protection network said it had checked the network But did not receive the promises, and any complaint or conclude that all the inhabitants of that region, namely Tin shacks complain destitution, poverty, deprivation, disease and kill them where no safe water To drink to have no electricity .
Commission on poverty alleviation are looking for allocations 2012
We met with Dr. Mahdi Keywords Undersecretary of the Ministry of Planning and Chairman of the Technical Committee To alleviate poverty, which includes 23 members from relevant ministries, in addition to being scheduled Of the Higher Committee guidelines to alleviate the poverty of the number of members of the 14-member constituencies Relevant, who said the reasons for and objectives of the committees on poverty alleviation .
- Came Poverty Reduction Strategy in Iraq, just when our people to get rid of Poverty at a time when the country is full of natural resources should be directed to achieve Comprehensive development to ensure free and dignified life for his children, and the launch of this strategy came With the near simultaneous transition to a new stage set features the results of parliamentary elections For the year 2010 and in the light of the joint cooperation agreement between the Ministry of Planning and the World Bank formed Higher Committee for the policies of poverty alleviation, and the agreement included four main themes Provide a database and statistical indicators on the situation Alajdtmai and family economic Iraq through the implementation of field survey and large, this effort is the first official effort to measure Poverty alleviation strategy and build it, and the work of the Committees referred to Dr. Keywords The technical committee headed by you to report to the High Commission Guidelines, and Committees may Cklta last year, has been monitoring the budget of $ 750 and 1 billion Dollars and we are now in the process of discussion with the Finance Ministry to allocate a percentage of allocations To cover the events of 2012, and the percentage of the poverty line was adopted, Dr. Keywords It's not more than 23%, and that what they said 40% number is exaggerated and the ambition to go down This ratio from 23% to 16% during the next four years, as explained by Dr. Keywords This ratio is not the (arbitrary) or extreme poverty, meaning they are not very poor but Taking into account food, clothing, medicine, education is the line that separates Well-being and deprivation, and the number of citizens living below the poverty line as Dr. Keywords are 6 million people and not 10 people, according to some statistics to However, that the statistics of the Ministry of Planning is the first reference being the author of the relationship .
Negative role of the World Bank in the control
Dr. Alaa Mohsen Qaisi Professor Meeting: that the society in Iraq is not broken, socially and politically, but economically wrecked And of living, citizens and all segments of millions of women suffer not only from terrorism but from Impoverishment, starvation and negatively to the rights of living and all the gains under the name of poverty, and adds Qaisi :To think about how the government uses poverty like a byproduct of a natural process!. Must be carefully Thinking in the sense that a government committee together with the biggest institution of banditry to mitigate global Poverty!. The World Bank, but, who is responsible for poverty in Iraq?. Here also I would like to Ask what does the World Bank in Iraq?Which provides the state treasury millions of dollars And recorded by the benefits of expensive debt? State has not enough money looting and thefts To support at least the ration card and build apartment complexes up to minimum humanitarian? What Achievements of the World Bank in the fight against poverty alleviation or in any part of the world? .Take any country liberated by the World Bank and Strua do what their people and the state of the terrible impoverishment Left by the "development programs"; from Egypt to Brazil and Africa to Russia and China Argentina, millions of workers unemployed, the poor and the disadvantaged and the accumulated debts of States are unable to Pay the parts of the benefits, did not provide the World Bank throughout its history is not only a supervisor Austerity policies and lending conditions that require the privatization of condemnation!!. Is such Institutions will solve the problem of poverty in Iraq is part of the forces of global impoverishment and exploitation? .Ask any person working in the organizations of UNESCO or the rest of the international humanitarian organizations He will say: The world lives in the disaster, and that these institutions are responsible for the disaster . Here they are talking today about poverty alleviation in Iraq, as if poverty had fallen from the sky and not By their policies, to throw dust in the eyes and the appearance of the Redeemer and Saviour of the people of Poverty .
And confirms Qaisi: another point about the accuracy of statistics contained in the work of the committees Problem in the ministries concerned. That it is very doubtful that these figures are realistic. It is Hand, the samples that are taken in this regard have serious problems even in countries And communities, let alone a normal society where people are killed because of their names! And blows it Children in the markets?And the strewn bodies of pedestrians on the sidewalks and storefronts? . In addition to the normal situation is that the census by committees composed of state Itself and not a research institution or university means an independent and realistic figures would be to change To suit the political objective of that authority and to show poverty (an appropriate and moderate). It wants to Shows the inability to provide a decent life? Works mentioned the figures for a modest proportion of poverty is True also that Iraq has the highest unemployment rates for workers in the world and the atmosphere and the conditions of war And destruction, killing and the status of women in the gutter as well as the situation of children and young people and students in the worst His conditions. There is a comprehensive retreat on all fronts; services, health, education and corruption in the Departments and agencies called the State and there are high prices compared to incomes and the deadlock in the Most joints of the economy. In Iraq, people do not drink clean water and electricity is not Present in all regions or all the time naturally and millions living in the houses do not have Minimum specifications decent housing, even within the so-called third world countries. Entry People do not allow them to pay high rents, and that certainly is likely that the percentage of poverty Within the strata of the society especially the poor far more than the figures stated I do not think he Will be much less than 20 million people in the fact .
In all cases, and assume that what They are saying is true, there is now recognition of the power by 10 million people hungry in Iraq, Millions of children, women, youth and men living on subsistence and had no idea how Sasdon Their children eat and breath the following day where you do not pay rent or taxi transport. That Ten million people is the third of the population of Iraq. Any that a third of Iraq's population are hungry and suffering from Extreme poverty!. But is that the citizens that their entry is located just above the poverty line, not luxurious Poor? How many of these people? 5 million, 10 million more?! I think they did no more than that ..
And sure Qaisi: not the cause of poverty in Iraq economically, but political. If conditions were Normal and stable politics and society for natural reasons we say that the economic and related policy State and the people demanding that all means in order to improve the situation and raise the level of Wages or conditions of services, but driven by political conflicts are disastrous on every level Thus, the hunger and poverty are the results of the situation deteriorating socio-political and not vice versa .
Current forces are not able to resolve the political situation in the sense the formation of the state recognized The community and return to normal and consequently the formation of dozens of committees will not solve the Not to mention the most basic social problem of poverty, unemployment, or corruption, we have already heard about a Daily and who did not survive him all aspects of the state ministries and most of what contributed to the emergence of phenomena Social spread of a terrible drug, leaving millions of students to school And unemployment, begging, homelessness and other .
The poverty in the community was destroyed decades ago Baskarth and sticky in the wars are not futile and planted the militias and sectarian gangs who Crushed the rights of women and tribal laws Ohaloua replace civil law and society torn Sectarian and religious, community Trucial replace with itself, poverty becomes a political issue in Iraq, on that account must be addressed politically Mtalbaa not limited or in part, not to mention However, he left the same forces that Ajermt right of the people and the hunger and violated his rights (orphans of Saddam) that Does not mean at all not to run the economic struggle in order to improve the living conditions of the poor the most Border, but it does mean only convert the demands and protests of the poor is objecting to a part Separate from the political demand a much wider class of poor offensive against the exploiting class to The removal of alternatives and substitution replaced by humanitarian, political struggle to end all disaster Ahloha in Iraq, not parts or symptoms of the disaster .
*****Economist: percentage Approaching 40 %
Confirms the economic expert, Dr. Jabbar Abdul Razak said the reports Neutral reported that the rate of poverty in Iraq is approaching the barrier of 40%. *****Although there are *****more than Ten million Iraqis are living below the poverty line,***** poverty map in crowded areas Rural compared to urban, and the lack of programs to reduce this phenomenon, which is primarily The first human and then warns the future, the economic rise of this ratio soon That means the statements that try to deterioration of the security line and the high crime, and shows Dr. Abdul Razzaq, quoting what the President cited, the Supreme Committee for the alleviation of poverty in Iraq, Dr. Mehdi Keywords in a press statement, that determine the national poverty line was based on calculating the cost of calories Heat necessary to sustain the health of the Iraqi individual, in addition to social survey data ***** And economic status of families, estimated the cost of basic food needs per inhabitant is 34 000Iraqi dinars, or about $ 29 per month . *****
The expert added that the collection of Abdul Razzaq The cost of basic food needs with the cost of non-food requirements means that the line Poverty in Iraq is equal to 76,896 dinars to 65.2 dollars per capita per month, and Prime High Committee for Poverty Reduction to 9.22 percent, or about 10 million Iraqis Fall below the poverty line in the country .
He pointed out that the distribution of individuals according to the average Spending revealed that most of them concentrated around the poverty line and few of them fall away from this Line .
He said that this means that a large proportion of the non-poor to the decline in their incomes As a result of loss of work or the breadwinner or illness in family members .
He stated that the poor in Rural areas make up 39% while 16% are in cities, and went on that 13% of them in Baghdad alone, and 11% in Basra and at the level of the rural rate is even higher in the provinces of Muthanna, 75 % And 61% to Babylon and Wasit to 60 %
According to Dr. Abdul Amir jurisdiction (the economy) that the measurement of poverty in Iraq requires three indicators :
Are: (a) index numbers of well-being; (b) poverty line, ie, determine Point where people are poor, without their level, (c) assessment of the extent of poverty (size) without the line is estimated . Continuing to describe the poverty in Iraq highlights Dr. Abdul Amir light on the features of poverty Geography .
And the digital indicator of well-being according to Dr. Abdul Amir used to index Capita expenditure on goods and services as a measure of well-being. Although recognizing the Supreme Of the draft policies for poverty alleviation, employment generation and social protection network, the average spending The individual does not cover all aspects of welfare, but it is useful to determine which families are poor, It should be noted that the average per capita expenditure was expressed for the purposes of calculating the index Real units, ie, this indicator has been modified to remove the effect of differences in prices due to Geographical location (provinces) and the temporal dimension (the seasonal variation ).
He also says Was behind the choice of average expenditure per capita as a measure of well-being rather than indicators of income or evidence Human development considerations, many of them spending is the closest in the expression of what we To measure the humanitarian needs or consumption, and despite the fact that income is a means Important to measure the possibility of exchange on the aspects of consumption, but is characterized by fluctuations in the long Short (seasonal Kaltzbzbat in rural areas) are more than fluctuations in Spending, so normally preclude its use as a measure of well-being, and the measurement of spending more Accuracy .
And clearly requires a well-being, emphasis on measures of human development Direct, which includes the case of education, health, and require in-depth analysis. Involve evidence Human development on the difficulty of specifically expressed by the number one abbreviated description Level of human development (and can be collected while the value of expenditure in dinars on each of the education And health, but that does not clarify whether the educational status should be obsessed on the weight of Weighted higher or lower than the health status ).
Explains Dr. Abdul Amir, measured The poverty level Bmkiesin main important are: measuring the extent of poverty and measure the depth of poverty is named Poverty gap. Measure the size of a poverty rate of individuals who fall below the poverty line, Ie the proportion of individuals who can not secure their basic food and non-food . In spite of the simplicity of this index but it is not sensitive to clarify the differences in the depth of Poverty, the poverty gap index provides useful information to know how much is the level of families move away The poverty line. Is calculated by collecting cases the difference in the levels of the poor from the poverty line (recipient Collection of the differences between real per capita spending for the poor and limited the poverty line) and divided by the population Total .
Calculated value of the size of the poverty level of Iraq, and found that it had reached 22.9% (range Two bounds are the lowest and the highest 20.9% and 24.8% confidence level of 95%). This means that between a quarter And a fifth of the population, consumed below the poverty line .
The poverty gap at the level of Iraq has Estimated at 4.5% (range between the lowest and highest bounds are 4.1% and 5% confidence level of 95%) which are The roots of poverty is not deep, meaning that the amount of consumption of the majority of the poor is very close to the end Poverty and any specific additional resources are able to lift the poor .
Different provinces In the level of both the extent of poverty and the poverty gap (depth). , While is more than 40% of the population of some Poor provinces (49% in Al-Muthanna in Babylon 41% in the Salah al-Din 40%), there are provinces Other than where the proportion of the poor 10% (9% in the Dohuk and Erbil and Sulaymaniyah, 3% 3 %). In general, provinces with high proportion of the poor (the size of poverty) increased the gap Poverty.
The indicators of poverty on a smaller scale than the provincial level, guide us to the Higher poverty levels in some areas.Indices in rural Muthanna indicate that the level of Consumption of 75% of the population lives below the poverty line, and the poverty gap by up to 24 %, As well as in the rural province of Babylon, which has a proportion of the poor to 61% and the poverty gap To 19%, and in the rural province of Wasit, where the proportion of poor people up to 60% and the poverty gap To 15 %.
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