Posts Tagged ‘Unemployment’

Unemployment rate in Iraq at high levels internationally and within Arab region

Posted: March 3, 2013 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Iraq solves ninth in the world and third in Arab highest level of unemployment

03/03/2013

Iraq solution ranked ninth in the world and the third Arab unemployment at its highest level.

The latest available data, the Gulf States: recorded unemployment rates in most Arab countries, record highs in 2012, especially in the countries of the Arab Spring, Mauritania, Palestine, and race. The Gulf Emirates recorded the highest unemployment rate among the countries of the Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf. (more…)

Planning: Iraq current unemployment rate falls to to 11%; Nearly 16% July 2011

Posted: October 25, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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10/24/2012 12:00 am

completed the Ministry of Planning on Tuesday, a technical report on the level of unemployment in Iraq, point to fall to 11 percent after it had been 30 percent in the past years, and after the application of the ministry for their development plans. (more…)

Decision of the House of Representatives: activating the investment the best solution to solve the problem of unemployment

Posted: August 17, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Arbil August 16 / August (Rn) – The decision of the House of Representatives to expedite the activation of investment and accelerate the legislation, pointing out that the only solution in order to provide jobs for millions of unemployed and solve the unemployment problem in the light of the government’s failure to provide adequate jobs for them. (more…)

International report: Iraq ranked 5th among Arab states when it comes the unemployment rate

Posted: August 9, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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09-08-2012 10:25 AM
Solve Iraq ranked the fifth in the order of the Arab countries, as the unemployment rate, said data from the International Monetary Fund and the ‘CIA’ The Djibouti solved the first prize in the unemployment rate among the Arab countries, where it reached 59% , with the dissolved Yemen secondly unemployment rate reached 35%, followed by Mauritania and Sudan at a rate of 30% and 18.7%. (more…)

Iraq Ministry of Labor: Unemployment will be Zero by 2016

Posted: August 7, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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LABOR MINISTRY: UNEMPLOYMENT WILL BE DOWN TO ZERO BY 2016
Iraq, August 6, 2012
Undersecretary of the Iraqi Labor Ministry Dara Yara said Sunday that unemployment in Iraq will be down to zero in the country by 2016 under a new “strategic plan”. (more…)

UN: Crisis of the euro area a major threat to global economy

Posted: June 9, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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United Nations revealed in a report released from the debt crisis of the euro area is the biggest threat to the global economy and aggravation could lead to the deterioration of global growth.

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Ministry of Planning: Unemployment rate in Iraq stood at 16%, poverty 11%

Posted: June 3, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics, Top Headlines
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03.06.2012

Alsumaria News / Karbala, said the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, Sunday, that the rate of unemployment in Iraq amounted to about 16%, while confirming that the poverty rate reached about 11%, a sign that it intends to contract with foreign companies to inspect the goods at border crossing points. (more…)

Investment Anbar: high rates of unemployment due to lack of economic vision

Posted: April 24, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Anbar / Baghdadiya News / .. The Commission on Investment in Anbar province, high rates of unemployment in the province as a result the intersection of law and the lack of economic vision.

The official Commission flowered Mullah Khader told / Baghdadiya News / “The one factor that led to high unemployment rates is the lack of vision clear economic as well as the most state-owned factories almost stopped and the intersection of law and Iraqi Ministry of Industry with the financial policy in Iraq.” (more…)

Parliament calls for the need to reduce unemployment

Posted: April 20, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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The member of the Integrity Commission, Khalid al-Alwani, parliamentary government to develop quick solutions to reduce the phenomenon of unemployment among young people who graduated from the universities did not find work.

He said al-Alwani, according to the Agency (news): The successive governments after 2003, failed in the management of the economic file, noting that this failure came in varying degrees in the application of strategy and economic policies able to build an economy capable of ensuring sustained economic growth. (more…)

Unemployment and lack of services in spite of the huge budget for Iraq

Posted: March 23, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics, Top Headlines
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Are free – Rep. for a coalition of Kurdish Blocs that Ashwaq dry state budgets over the past nine years and reached the huge numbers were offset by a significant deterioration in the development of the citizen, who is still suffering from a lack of services and widespread unemployment. (more…)

Central Bureau of Statistics confirms 12% unemployment rate in Iraq

Posted: February 18, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Baghdad, February 18 (Rn) – The Central Bureau of Statistics of the Ministry of Planning, said on Saturday that the unemployment rates for the year 2012 witnessed a decline compared to the latest figures announced in 2008, pointing out that the ratios show that unemployment has become 12% instead of 15 %.

He said the head of the Mahdi Keywords told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that the unemployment rate has been a “decline” Whether simple or significant but in the country abounds in natural resources and economic potential are assumed to be the unemployment rate is very low. (more…)

Representative: Investment key to Iraq creating 500,000 jobs annually

Posted: February 8, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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NAJAF, Feb. 7 (AKnews) – A National Alliance Representative has called for Iraq to create 500,000 jobs annually by activating the country’s investment sector.

Mohammed al-Hendawi quoted the International Monetary Fund when he said that Iraq should create the job opportunities each year. The country currently fails to hit this target. (more…)

Iraq’s former Minister of Planning criticizes the current monetary policy for Iraq

Posted: January 22, 2012 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics, Top Headlines
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The Minister of Planning and credit of the former Iraqi Mahdi Al-Hafiz, the vital importance of any annual financial budget lies in the fact that an economic tool to ensure effective distribution of financial resources in the form of sound and meet the objectives of social and development policy as a political system and its principles.

Hafiz said the reporter and the news agency Saturday that the future “There are dilemmas such as if the circle chronic unemployment rate ranged between 20 and 30 percent, and low standard of living and lack of public services and the spread of corruption and cronyism on a large scale.” (more…)

Iraq’s unemployment hits one million

Posted: December 11, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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ERBIL, Dec. 11 (AKnews) – Unemployment in Iraq has reached one million according the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs.

Dara Hasan Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs told AKnews: “We are working on a plan to bring the level of unemployment down. There are 13 new laws ready to be issued which will protect and stabilized employees’ rights in both private and public sector.”

He added: “Due to a high level of unemployment in Iraq the government will recruit more than 150,000 people. But we do not relay solely on government job creation but also the private sector.”

Hassan believes small and medium sized loans for individuals and companies will somehow boost employment in the private sector however he provided AKnews with no data to substantiate this or any details on the size of the loans.

 

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US withdrawal will contribute to an increase in unemployment within Iraq

Posted: November 28, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Economy is expected to increase the unemployment rate in Iraq after U.S. withdrawal
Date: Monday, 11/28/2011 14:17

Baghdad (news) .. Likely economic expert Hamid Wasti increase the unemployment rate in Iraq after U.S. withdrawal that most of the U.S. bases were absorbed large numbers of young people.

said Wasti told the reporter Agency (news) on Monday: that unemployment in Iraq will increase significantly after the U.S. withdrawal as a result, most U.S. bases in all governorates of Iraq, she was thousands of young people unemployed in Iraq as translators, engineers and workers and is compared to the salaries of high financial. (more…)

MP Sadoun: Unemployment is a growing phenomenon; Serious consequences if not treated quickly

Posted: October 29, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Sadoun: unemployment phenomenon with serious consequences for bad and should be treated quickly

BAGHDAD (Iba) … Confirmed former Rep. Alaa Saadoun, the phenomenon of unemployment and have serious adverse consequences if not treated quickly, calling for all ministries to develop a plan in this regard.

And Saadoun said in a statement received by the independent press (Iba) The unemployment rate is increasing annually due to the number of graduates large who join for their peers who went years getting a degree without being able to work accordingly, pointing out that all the previous procedures in this regard were not feasible as adopted For the allocation of grades only.

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Parliament Economic Committee: GOI unable to absorb unemployment

Posted: October 26, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Member of the Committee criticized the economy and investment in the parliament, deputy Amer Al-Fayez inability of the government sector to provide jobs for the unemployed and reduce the unemployment rate, calling for the activation of the private sector to take its role in investment to address the phenomenon.

He said in a press statement yesterday, “the government sector is unable to absorb unemployment and country can be totally dependent on this sector through the provision of employment opportunities, as a result of its functions and projects Ltd., he can not accommodate large numbers of unemployed. (more…)

Iraqi Planning is seeking to activate the private sector and run the 3 million unemployed

Posted: October 17, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Poverty in Iraq

Baghdad, October 17 (Rn) – The Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation on Monday, announced a plan to run 3 million citizens, stressing that the number of poor in Iraq will reach 5 million people in 2014, instead of the projected estimates by reaching 7 million.

Applauds the countries of the world today, Monday, the anniversary of the World Day against poverty.

Said the spokesman of the Ministry of Planning Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Ministry of Planning has developed a plan to run 3 million Iraqi citizens through the activation of the private sector and regulate the distribution of jobs in the government sector.”
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Planning a strategy to address unemployment in Iraq

Posted: September 2, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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30.08.2011

Embarked and the Ministry of Planning in conjunction and coordination with ministries and other bodies to develop a perception of a scientific and clear about the reality and ways to address the phenomenon of unemployment which has become a problem of political, economic and even security in Iraq today.

After the government announced over the past eight years a number of projects and plans to address this phenomenon, without This results in a clear results, announced in Baghdad recently to issue a document of a national strategy of operating in Iraq, which he says a spokesman for the Ministry of Planning Abdul-Zahra al-Hindawi, it will provide three million jobs in the timeframe extends to three years.

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Iraq: to provide 4 million jobs over the next three years

Posted: August 12, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Baghdad, 12 August / August (Rn) – Minister of Planning and Development Cooperation of Iraq, Friday, that his ministry has developed high-level plan to provide 4 million job opportunities over the next Althelah.

Said Ali Shukri, told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the Ministry of Planning and Development Cooperation, has developed high-level plan for the development of 4 million job opportunities during the next three years.”

The Iraqi government maintains that economic development projects on the rise as the unemployment rate dropped from 52% to 15% and the level of the poverty line from 54% to 23% and the overall level of inflation declined from 65% to 6%.

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Iraq Labor Minister: Unemployment in Iraq at 15%

Posted: July 23, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Detection and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs for the unemployment rate in Iraq is fifteen percent.

He said Nassar al-Rubaie said the National Development Plan requires the arrival rate of unemployment in two thousand and fourteen for up to seven percent.

with Brradz his ministry to address the problem, saying it can not be any ministry that dealt with unemployment, but he also said the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs is developing a legal and regulatory environment to address the phenomenon.

The United Nations expressed during this month expressed concern about the high rate of illiteracy and unemployment among the youth of Iraq, calling on the Iraqi government to provide employment opportunities.

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UN: Unemployment in Iraq 28%, and a quarter of Iraqis living in poverty

Posted: June 3, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Detection Representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations human rights in Iraq (WK) that the unemployment rate in Iraq exceeded the 28%, while a quarter of Iraq’s population of extreme poverty.

Kalin said in his latest report submitted to the United Nations, Iraq is suffering from inter challenges and challenges include the lack of structural reforms, and the weakness of private sector development, corruption, high rates of underemployment / unemployment, poverty, giving 28% and & 5%, respectively.

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UN Melkert: To improve the situation of workers and unemployment will guarantee an end to Iraq’s entry into the free market

Posted: May 24, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Erbil, May 24 (Rn) – The head of the United Nations Mission in Iraq Ed Mlkerd said Tuesday that Iraq sought and work to improve the labor and an end to unemployment are good and improving Iraq’s income contributes to the entry into the global market which is mainly active in the international economy.

He said Mlkerd during the economic and social and government, which was held in Baghdad and broadcast by Al-Iraqiya semi-official “The workers returned to their reality and the impact on machine operation in the country, develop the Iraqi economy and access to the better for all people despite the presence of some Alaqzaia facing the economy as challenges in particular.”

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Economists: Iraq faces challenges in the recruitment of oil resources

Posted: May 23, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Continuing effects of unemployment on economic and social levels, in light of the limited attempts adopted by some government agencies and non-governmental organizations,

To contain this phenomenon and the consequent negative effects on the reality of daily life within the community, specialists in economic affairs to them among other solutions to this problem, or phenomenon as it came to called.

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Finding resolutions to Iraq’s unemployment crisis

Posted: May 22, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Iraqi Minister of Planning: Organization of the private sector guarantees to cut unemployment

The Ministry of Planning said that the organization of private sector projects and activating the support of the Government will reduce the unemployment rates to their lowest levels in Iraq after that and reached 15%, which is very high in a country such as Iraq.

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Iraqi Minister of Planning: Organization of the private sector guarantees to cut unemployment

Posted: May 21, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Baghdad, 20 May (Rn) – The Iraqi Ministry of Planning that the organization of private sector projects and activating the support of the Government will reduce the unemployment rates to their lowest levels in Iraq after that and reached 15%, which is very high in a country such as Iraq.

The spokesman said ministry spokesman Abdel Zahra al-Hindawi told the Kurdish news agency (Rn) that “the organization of work of the private sector and expand coordination with the Ministry of Industry and activation of the customs tariff law aimed at promoting the local production would contribute to the integration of large numbers of unemployed and reduce the level of unemployment from 15% to 5%. “

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Iraq unemployment rate hits 16%

Posted: May 18, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Cairo, May 18 (Aknews) – Unemployment has hit 16 per cent, meaning four million Iraqis out out of work, figures from the Ministry of Labour show today.  The figure from earlier this year stood at 15 per cent. Unemployment is one of the major crises facing the government, already accused of corruption and inefficency.

However, this rise follows years of decreasing unemployment, from a peak of 25 per cent in 2007.  These figures do not reveal the extent of the problem as they do not record underemployment – where people cannot fine enough work to support themselves.

The rise in joblessness comes as many Iraqi provinces have been witnessing protests calling for employment opportunities, as well as the improvement of basic services and living conditions.

On February 27 Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki gave his cabinet ministers a period of 100 days, to improve their performance or face being sacked.

Unemployment in Kurdistan stands at 13%.

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Economists warn of Unemployment in Iraq

Posted: May 8, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Economists warned of the dangers of high unemployment in Babylon, especially among graduates, with almost complete absence of investment projects. The study published in the province recently reported that nearly 78 percent of the unemployed are young people aged between 18-30 years. The economic expert, Dr. Hassan Salman that the absence of mega-projects in the sectors of energy, oil and housing have created a crisis of work among the unemployed who have risen in number in the last three years, weakened by the rates of grades in government institutions by almost half. Indicating that a project investment in the sector Housing creates between 120 to 170 jobs that the preservation of any if I got a dozen projects, they succeed in the recruitment of unemployed in 1500 between the engineers, technicians and skilled workers.

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IMF chief warns globally “we are still in a crisis”

Posted: April 15, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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WASHINGTON, April 15 (KUNA) — The chief of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, warned late Thursday the global economic crisis continues despite improving economic conditions, posing high unemployment rates as the biggest threat to global recovery.

“We are still in a crisis,” said Strauss-Kahn, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) managing director cautioning against “complacency”. He noted the key to sustainable growth for “advanced economies” would be jobs.

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Experts in economic seminar: Containment of unemployment depends on activating development

Posted: March 29, 2011 in Iraqi Dinar/Politics
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Experts have confirmed in the economy the importance of development in all its forms to contain them most of the problems experienced by the sectors of finance, production and services, in addition to contain the problem of unemployment, which took their effects constitute an element of public pressure, and made the seminar magazine Echo Bay entitled repercussions of unemployment and the lack of services on the economic situation in Iraq.

To stand at the importance of development to contain most of the economic problems.

Economic expert Mehdi al-Hafez said on the sidelines of the seminar: There are challenges facing the development process is by war, sanctions and authoritarianism are all exacerbated by the deteriorating conditions of development and a sharp decline in the red zone. As well as violence and the consequences of sectarian and ethnic strife. Another challenge of building a new foundation, noting that the report of the Human Development International in 1994 drew a distinction between a range of threats, including threats of Section I own local communities and different regions in the world and report identified seven elements or values ​​threaten human security are offset by risks.

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