***** Planning: a new strategy to reduce poverty rate

10/04/2014

Planning Ministry announced its intention to launch a new strategy for the next four years to reduce the poverty rate in Iraq.

He told the ministry spokesman Abdul Zahra al-Hindawi Radio Free Iraq "that the new strategy can achieve higher income of the citizen, and that the improvement of the level of health and education in addition to providing an environment better housing, and effective social protection, and the disparity was lower among women and men."

To the spokesman of the Ministry of Construction and Housing Abdul Wahid Al-Shammari "that 2015 and 2016 will witness the creation of a lot of projects related to poverty alleviation strategy," and urged "the government to increase the allocations of the ministry to be able to do its job to the fullest."

The president of the Association (sun south) for Development and Economic Development Nasser Saidi, "The new strategy for poverty alleviation need to be a great time to achieve its goals, especially in the southern provinces, which topped the other provinces in poverty levels during the previous years," he said, adding that "the previous plan proved failure to lack of dependence on accurate data, clear and transparent about the reality of poverty in the country. "

The previous strategy to alleviate poverty and faced a number of challenges was the lack of security and stability and not to distribute wealth fairly, or to diversify the sources of growth in a market economy and mitigate the negative effects of economic reform on the poor.


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