Call for employment of local workers in foreign investments

25/7/2018 12:00 am

Require the establishment of projects to contain them
Baghdad / Emad Al-Amara
Achieving economic growth requires addressing the problems of unemployment so as not to impede the achievement of industrial growth in the long term, which is reflected positively on social conditions and thus achieve full stability in all areas of life, because unemployment means the number of unemployed citizens of the category
Young .


Investment and operation
Between academic economist Dr. Thaer al-Ani that "finding effective solutions to the problem of unemployment requires the appropriate climate for domestic and foreign investment, doubling employment opportunities," noting the importance of focusing on directing investment to provide opportunities (labor-intensive), serving the employment and employment in the private sector able To absorb a large portion of the
"Al-Ani said in an interview with Al-Sabah that" this will lead to the reduction of unemployment rates, as has occurred in some countries of the world and Arab countries such as Tunisia and Morocco. High-intensity industrial investments have helped to reduce unemployment rates. "


small projects
Al Ani saw the need to "increase the volume of government spending, which is an important factor in moving the stagnation of the national economy, because increasing expenditure doubles investments and provides capital and works to absorb the unemployed in state projects or private projects." He added, "It is necessary to implement social fund programs to finance small projects and provide infrastructure and services in poor areas, such as funds in some Arab countries, where these funds contribute to provide employment opportunities for large numbers of unemployed as well as their contribution to reduce the phenomenon of rural migration
to the city" .


Run the unemployed
Al Ani stressed that "the reconstruction of the economic sectors and infrastructure in cities liberated from terrorism will employ the unemployed, especially young people, with the need to restructure the labor market to accommodate the increase in the national workforce through the adoption of various programs to train workers and rehabilitate them to work and provide services Necessary to enable them to obtain opportunities for employment within an environment
New work ".


Labor market
The phenomenon of unemployment is composed of several factors on both sides of the supply and demand for labor, the most important of which are high rates of population growth and increasing migration from rural to urban areas, and the inability of the national economy to create adequate jobs that are compatible with the supply of increasing numbers of entrants to the labor market due to limited production base and weakness Growth of investments and economic growth rates as well as the non-alignment of education outputs to requirements
Labor market. Al-Ani pointed out that "there are other factors contributing to the spread of unemployment, such as the dependence of industrial and service activities on the density of capital rather than the intensity of labor, the wage policy in Iraq, which has a negative impact on the possibility of employment opportunities and competition of the public sector at the cost of wages, For the agricultural sector, which can usually absorb a large proportion of the labor force, as well as the trade deficit due to dependence on imports, which creates jobs in the countries of production and export and creates unemployment in countries
Import "fields.


Youth unemployment
For his part, the academic economist Dr. Ahmad Omar Al-Rawi said that "the disruption of the most active category of other age groups to contribute to the construction process may push them to do acts contrary to the law, especially under conditions such as the circumstances of Iraq, which suffered from the violence until recently ( ).


Private sector support
The official statistics show that unemployment among young people aged 15 to 24 years constituted a large percentage of 50 percent of the total unemployed, more than half of the unemployed youth, who represent about 30 percent of the total labor force, which emphasizes the importance of addressing This phenomenon is supported by the private sector in order to take its main role in the development process so that it can re-invest its immigrant funds to create jobs capable of absorbing the forces
"He stressed" the importance of giving priority to the recruitment of local manpower in foreign investment through the provision of some facilities and tax exemptions for foreign investments that employ national labor. "


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