Consultant Abadi: The government has achieved 70% of the plan to increase non - oil revenues


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Economy News / Baghdad ...



Revealed Acanutormzar Mohammed Saleh, Economic Adviser to the Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, on Sunday, for the government to achieve 70 percent of its plan to increase non-oil revenues to the state, while assuring employees and pensions insurance during the current year 2017.

Saleh said at a "Economy News," a statement that "the government is going according to plan aims to increase and expand the non-oil revenues to bridge the shortfall in the state budget law," noting that "the plan stipulates that equivalent to those revenue 10 percent from government imports within the overall budget the past".

Saleh added, "The government has managed to achieve 70 percent of that plan," pointing out that "the government is trying to increase non-oil revenues during the current year's budget, in order to strengthen the public finances of the state and the advancement of economic reality."

He pointed out that "the government and within its strategy secured the salaries of employees and retirees in the current year's budget," adding that it "plans and measures taken in order to respond to crises that threaten the local economy, is carried at oil prices."




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