Planning announces decrease in the poverty rate in the country from 24% to 18%

21/12/2013 09:22

Tomorrow's Press / Baghdad: The Ministry of Planning, the Sabbath, from a decrease in the poverty rate in the country significantly from 24% to 18% during the past two years.

He said ministry spokesman Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi for "tomorrow's Press," said that "those who live below the poverty line, five million Iraqis after the number was eight million," noting that "covers all dimensions of poverty such as housing, income, education and health."

He added that "there is a strategy pursued by the ministry for the eradication of poverty through the establishment of residential complexes are distributed to the poor," pointing out that "the poverty rate in the country fell from 24% to 18%."

The Ministry of Planning announced on the 14th of May 2013, for a decline in poverty rates in Iraq during the past years, and suggested that the percentage of the poverty level in Iraq to about 18 percent.


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