An economist calls on the government to adopt important steps to address the problem of declining resources and reduce dependence on borrowing

Wednesday 07, October 2020 22:00
 
Baghdad / NINA / The consultant in industrial development and investment, Amer Al-Jawahiri, called on the government to adopt important steps to address the problem of declining resources and reduce dependence on borrowing, whether it was internal or external, or both.

He told the Iraqi National News Agency / NINA / that: These steps include the immediate deduction of all the dues of the stagnant mobile phone companies, the first-hand collection, the clean collection, and the use of mechanization for taxes, customs, municipality funds, traffic, electricity and others, while canceling all customs exceptions for all countries and regions.

Al-Jawahiri added that: These steps also include the abolition of price concessions for oil exports to any party, and strict control of all oil exports from the Kurdistan region to be part of the activities of the Oil Marketing Company and its revenues to enter the federal budget with serious and immediate treatment of space employees in all parts of Iraq.

He pointed to the importance of non-pluralism of salaries, and every employee or retired person should receive one salary and reduce unnecessary expenditures in all sectors and economic activities, so that this becomes a procedural and educational context, and moves to retrieve state property and real estate in stages and dispose of them as the people's money while re-evaluating the services and rents of the endowment properties In order to match the current prices and adopt the principle of partnership between the public and private sectors in attracting investments in all sectors, while emphasizing good governance, transparency and control of uncontrolled imports such as cars and general materials, taking into account the reduction of the gap between oil revenues and the central bank’s dollar sales. 

Al-Jawahiri pointed to the need to adopt the principle of competition between all government institutions in terms of productivity, quality of services and firmness in the comprehensive switching of departments that did not achieve the objectives of the institutions that took over their management with the empowerment, support and protection of actually establishing and operating small and medium enterprises and following up on their investigations and working to return the money stolen by the corrupt to benefit from it To serve the people of Iraq and follow up the retrieval of funds, stocks, real estate, companies, projects and stocks belonging to the former regime outside Iraq, and allocate lands served by water, electricity and communications with a broad scope that encourages their use by entrepreneurs and owners of ideas and projects to enable them to start business and continue successfully.

And the importance of organizing and providing land, water, sprinkler irrigation equipment and electricity to desert lands, dividing them and distributing them to entrepreneurs and projects for agricultural purposes and supporting their marketing capabilities and for export purposes while fighting corruption with an iron hand that will provide a large proportion of the needs. / End 3

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