2014 budget .. And the need for budget items require programming

01/19/2014 21:03

Academic : her problem is not inherited but executive
BAGHDAD - Shkran Fatlawi
Combines most of the experts that the problem of the general budget in Iraq is not related to third-party executive but is inherited since approximately a hundred years has not changed the style of preparation , but the doors tight.

 They went beyond it They described the preparation that is disproportionate to the size of the economic and social crises and the possibility of addressing the dilemma Development witnessed by the country and the owner of the consequences and repercussions .

 At a meeting with the academic and economic expert d . Imad Abdul Latif Salem conducted "morning" on his assessment of the Tab budget year 2014 said that it did not differ from its predecessor but is a model repeater and dedicated to the same pattern and the goal of being the budget items .

Pointed out that the budget of 2014 based class basis to monitor allocations and the distribution of oil revenues on the doors of spending without taking into account the various feasibility of this spending and the balance of the revenues compared Pkfatth him .

Budget items

Abdul- Latif pointed out that this budget is the budget items « routine « , simple, and « module « A breach in the timing does not issue a law and I make , but in March of the following year to prepare in the best case , referring to the race and spending units (after legislation ) to exhaustion their operating expenses , explaining that the proportion of spending investment budget allocations typically ranging between 25 percent in the worst case to 50 percent in the best one , pointing out that there are units spending can not even spend a full operational allocations during the financial year of the general budget .

The best talent

He pointed to the experiences of countries have come a long way ( including the countries of the underdeveloped world ) .

In response to the changes in the preparation of budgets and we are running while we can not be absorbed in our places (we are bombarded with the best talent the country of human and financial resources, the most prolific ) .

He stressed that there is a link between the multi-dimensional budget and macroeconomic framework and the current budget does not allow items to reveal the dimensions of such a link does not achievable as in the administration of public finances in Iraq are being fragmented and severed the link and independent of the macroeconomic framework .

And Abdul- Latif that the general budget may refer to connect with the development plan and other strategies is that this is not a substitute for being a mirror of the relationship between the budget - growth - operating - external balance - price stability - the equitable distribution of income and wealth .

He said he should not throw these tasks lies with other economic policies and other departments crucial element in the management of the state of the economy is the budget and public spending is crucial dynamic factor in everything that we like it now or not .

Oil exports

He noted that the budget focuses on growth derived from the increase in production and exports of oil as oil prices remain at the top of their rates , stressing the need to leave this approach , pointing out that the world does not measure or is no longer dependent on the growth of output of a particular resource or a particular sector alone but on productivity growth associated certain cultural norms technological works private and public sector together to accordingly bis that this Aitoagaf on the size of the resources available to the budget , but on tangible progress in « efficiency « upon which the effectiveness of financial resource in the end.

Administrative reform

He said this approach must be linked to a radical administrative reform of public finances in Iraq from databases and accounting work patterns and cultural norms end audit and control and performance evaluation according to the international standards adopted in this regard .

He said Abdul Latif that the general budget heading annually to increase spending and do not operate state budget (including the budget year 2013 ) to consider how the gradual reduction of the size of the commitments in front of future fiscal years and go like this helps to employ resources efficiently highest to serve the basic objectives of public finances .

Addressing the challenges

And on how to address these challenges, said the academic and economic researcher d . Imad Abdul Latif Salem : The alternative is to prepare a budget programs and performance as the first task in the preparation of the general budget , there must be identification of the policies and objectives aimed at this budget to achieve them , stressing the need to come budget after the general economic policy and not vice versa If there was a defect in the policies , the budget can not be effective .

He added that this type of budgeting helps to achieve this task , depending on the outcomes of spending (ie, the work done the same ) which is capable of answering whether the mechanism of work done is equal to what was spent actually does fit with the cost of the service provided , with emphasis on the efficient use of resources .

He concluded academic d . Abdul Latif Speaking certainly on the basis of the last adopted budget programs it bother efficient performance in the field of planning, especially in the long term and not to restrict programs ministries one year , as well as it is flexible as it allows , depending on the ways and alternative solutions for the implementation of programs and objectives in the event of delay or failure units of tunnels in their implementation in accordance with the mechanisms designed to implement originally saying it constitutes the basic approach to pattern more advanced in preparing a « general budget gender responsive « there are more than fifty countries have applied this type of budgets so far is Egypt and Morocco are among the most successful countries in this regard .


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