Government adviser announces the implementation of the government of Abbadi 66% of its economic program


Economy News Baghdad: The period of the current government, headed by Haider Abadi, is nearing completion, but its economic program implemented over the past period was 66% according to financial adviser appearance of Mohammed Saleh.

In its government program in September 2014, the Iraqi government presented six key axes: a secure and stable Iraq, upgrading the level of service and livelihood of citizens, encouraging privatization and increasing oil and gas production to improve financial sustainability, administrative and financial reform of government institutions as well as regulating federal-local relations.

The economic adviser to the Prime Minister, the appearance of Mohammed Saleh, spoke to "Economy News", "The rate of completion of the government program amounted to 66%, which is high," noting that the program was accompanied by financial and security crises represented by the entry of the organization "Daash" and low oil prices, A program needs a stable environment, and the government has applied a high percentage of it, which is honorable.

He added that the implementation of the program contributed to improving the living conditions of citizens after the government succeeded in financial management in the difficult circumstances of the crisis.

Saleh pointed out that the government program will take its natural course in the coming period and that Prime Minister Haider Abadi said earlier, as we fought terrorism, we will fight to improve the economic situation, especially with regard to fighting corruption and the transition to market economy.

The government is seeking through the program to raise the level of service and living for the citizen, but Iraq suffers from a crisis of housing suffocation in which the number of Iraqis without housing about two million people, and announced the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs that 44% of divorce cases because of the housing crisis, and the provinces of Baghdad, Basra and Nineveh Of the most populous provinces in Iraq, and the Iraqi government in 2016 plan to build 979 thousand housing units through investment.

The performance is disappointing

The economic expert in the name of Antoine, in an interview with "Economy News", that the program was walking very slowly to the existence of cases of corruption hampered his march as well as the start that accompanied the emergence of the "da'ash" and the fall of oil prices.

The previous budgets were mostly operational, 75% of which was allocated as salaries, while the investment part was negligible, and the private sector's entitlements were not managed by the government, and only 40% were disbursed.

Antoine stressed the need for political will and conviction in the program, and move away from the party blocs because the latter was not motivated by the help of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, the implementation and partisan quotas did not come competencies to manage the program.

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