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WOTS MON 11 15 21 Expectations of financial abundance and the disappearance of the deficit in 2022

 WOTS MON 11 15 21

Expectations of financial abundance and the disappearance of the deficit in 2022

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Things in the News:


Iraqi Articles:

Al-Nusairi sets the methodology for development and support for the private sector in the Economic Reform Committee

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The economic and banking advisor to the Association of Iraqi Private Banks, Samir Al-Nusairi, participated in the work of the fifth session, which was held, on Sunday, for the Economic Reform Committee, in which he presented a vision and methodology for developing and supporting the private sector through the effects and repercussions of the economic reality in the current situation and the challenges it faces. The study he delivered at the session included the following topics:-

The first axis - the repercussions of the current economic reality on the private sector

The transformations and historical events that our country has witnessed, the struggles of which are still present, have not yet been established on their stable and stable bases politically, economically, socially and securityly. Therefore, there is an urgent need to correct reality and take it to the right paths that secure opportunities for stability, progress and prosperity.

There was a historic opportunity for successive governments to transform from governments that dominate all activities, to governments of planning, coordination and supervision, governments that do not practice blasphemy, but rather take leadership and direction, and open the doors for the private sector to take its role in the advancement of the production and service sectors. The modern government model is the purchase or rent of service. .

However, it is unfortunate that governments have continued to practice their traditional inherited roles, and their agencies have expanded and sagged in a way that swallowed the largest part of the state's resources and at the same time did not enable the private sector to take its role to carry out reform, advancement and development.

The nature of government expenditures deepened the delay in the advancement of the real sector of industry, agriculture, tourism and others, as it led to the weakening of the productive private sector and the strengthening of consumerism in light of the chaos of imports and dumping policies practiced by the exporting countries, and Iraq became a large market from end to end, meaning that the oil resources that It is the basis of the state's resources that go to building the economies of the exporting countries.

 Since 2003 until the present time, the Iraqi economy has suffered greatly from the loss of the curriculum, the lack of economic planning, the weakness of strategies, the dispersal of policies and confusion in managing the affairs of the economy and its various productive sectors, which led to a weak contribution to the gross domestic product. The focus was on oil as the main resource for economic resources, where it formed within limits (60%) of the gross domestic product and (93%) of the total revenues of the general budget.

What contributed to the exacerbation of Iraq's problems is the mismanagement and distribution of public money, which encouraged the exacerbation of financial and administrative corruption, marginalization and failure to give the private sector the appropriate opportunity and the national economic cadres, expertise and competencies to manage effective economic institutions. In addition to the effects of external economic conditions, including the instability of oil prices, their rise and decline.

What confused the economic process in Iraq and increased its complexity, is the structural imbalance in the economy and the challenges that led to instability in the monetary system and the financial system and thus the inability to achieve complete economic stability due to the deficit in non-oil revenue, the deficit in the balance of payments and the deficit in the general budget. This does not stimulate, encourage, support and involve the private sector in economic decision-making. 

As well as the shortcomings in the legal environment regulating economic life issued in 2004. Experience has proven that they are deficient laws and need to be reformulated and amended, and that the set of challenges and repercussions above, despite Iraq's high oil resources and the growing numbers of public budgets, has not achieved anything at the level of reform and sound economic construction and the involvement of the private sector in making economic decisions and through all those repercussions that it suffered from Our National Economy There are many challenges faced by the private sector for subjective and objective reasons.

 The second axis: challenges of the private sector

The private sector in Iraq suffers from a set of challenges that prevent its development, including, but not limited to:

1- Instability in the business environment in the country.

2- The absence of a methodology and the shortcomings of government policies and programs to support the private sector and the consolidation of the legal and regulatory frameworks that were designed for a centrally planned economy.

3- The shortcomings in bank financing and the sterility of the executive procedures for lending investment projects.

4- Lack of physical infrastructure in the country and insufficient supplies to operate projects such as electricity, energy and water.

5- Poor training and qualification of human resources working in the private sector, especially the technical and skilled groups.

6- Loss of methodology for reforming the national economy and its reflection on the role of the private sector in achieving development.

7- Import chaos, failure to support and protect the local product, and failure to activate the Public-Private Partnership Law and the Local Product Protection Law.

8- The spread of financial and administrative corruption in all episodes of stimulating the private sector to invest.

 The third axis - the methodology of reforming and supporting the private sector.

The start of the transition from a rentier economy to a productive one, in line with the National Development Plan for the years (2018-2020) and Iraq’s Vision 2030, diversifying resources, and reducing the dependence on oil as a major source of revenue. In order for this to be achieved, there must be a clear role and a decreed program to involve the private sector in managing the economy and making economic and development decisions. This comes through the following:-

1- Rebuilding the institutional and legal structure of the private sector in the legislative, incentive and procedural aspects in a manner consistent and consistent with what was stated in the axes of the implementation stages of the private sector development strategy for the years (2014-2030) launched by the government in February 2015 provided that these programs actually start immediately by developing mechanisms to involve the sector The national private sector in economic decision-making, in particular the development of the productive sectors and the private banking sector.

2- Activating the Private Sector Development Council, which was recently formed temporarily under the chairmanship of the Minister of Planning.

The council is composed of representatives of the private sector and the government in equal shares and undertakes the management, supervision, review and evaluation of the programs and policies set for making the decisions required to achieve the central economic goals through participation and cooperation between the private and public sectors. Cabinet sessions to express an opinion in the discussions of the private sector and to represent the private sector in the implementation follow-up committees and specialized committees in the Council of Ministers and to give a key role to the private banking sector as it is primarily responsible for financing and lending to small, medium and large projects, housing projects and reconstruction.

 Among the most prominent axes that clarify the role of the private sector and the role of banks in development, which emphasizes the need to implement important stages towards building a strategy for developing the economy and supporting and developing the private sector and the tasks that the Private Sector Development Council requires and the involvement of the private sector in a greater role 

In economic decision-making and market leadership through the following:‐

1- Contributing to improving the business environment in Iraq and providing an encouraging investment climate to attract national capital. and foreign and encouraging partnerships between the public and private sectors

2- Contributing to the creation of a new legislative environment based on Article (25) of the permanent constitution and the strategies and laws related to economic reform and the development of the private sector to ensure its activation and leadership in the market in the future.

3- Maintaining and activating the partnership, dialogue and cooperation between the private sector and the government by activating the partnership law between the private sector and the public sector, which has not been implemented for several years.

4- Contribute to the development of policies, mechanisms and strategies and participate in the follow-up of their implementation in order to resolve the transition to programmed phases in time to a market economy.

5- Working to provide additional funding sources for the state’s general budget by adopting the development and diversification of resources towards raising the proportion of resources other than oil in the gross domestic product.

6- Working to encourage the establishment and development of small, small, medium, large and housing projects in order to achieve comprehensive and sustainable development, including the formation of specialized institutions for it, and for bank financing to contribute more broadly to financing projects of all kinds.

Expectations of financial abundance and the disappearance of the deficit in 2022

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Expectations of financial abundance and the disappearance of the deficit in 2022

 

A member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee in the former parliament, Sherwan Mirza, expected a financial abundance in the 2022 financial budget due to the rise in oil prices.

Mirza told {Euphrates News}: "There is a financial abundance that has been achieved and the possibility of improving the economic situation due to the increase in oil prices."
He added, "So far, Iraq has not resorted to borrowing, whether external or internal, and it is at the end of the year."

Mirza pointed out that "there is full financial coverage, meaning there is no financial deficit until now."
He continued, "The government has fulfilled its full financial obligations towards the citizens, and there are expectations that the price of a barrel of oil will stabilize at the rate of 80 dollars



CBI Update:  Just  a note:

They have been having auctions and the ISX has been trading regularly; the sites just don't update in time to put the information in this report, unless it is 
here.   

Click on the link above for the latest update.

The CBI for rate is 1460

The currency auction For November 15th, 2021 total sales amount $198,118,543


ISX Update:   

www.isx-iq.net/

Shares Traded: not updated for today
Value Traded: not updated for today 

11-14-2021   Newshound Guru MilitiaMan   Article:  "International experts announce a new amount for the remainder of Iraq's compensation to Kuwait" Quote:  "...476 million dollars, while it is likely that the full compensation will be paid in the last quarter of this year..."   So it says, Iraq is likely that they will pay the last part of the compensation plan to Kuwait in the last quarter of this year. Well we are in the last quarter and have been for a couple weeks now...they tell us "previously" that the payment will end in the first quarter of 2022...Well, they moved it up to this last quarter and it has the potential to even have been paid by now or shortly here to come.

11-14-2021   Intel Guru Frank26
   [Firefly boots-on-the-ground Iraqi TV update]  FIREFLY: ...They're saying that Iraq can return to the previous dollar exchange rate...  FRANK Man this is happening fast!  So now they're talking about the RI?  FIREFLY: ...because the current exchange rate is hurting Iraqi citizens... FRANK: ...the education is louder and stronger and it is fast every day but more importantly it is from the CBI governor of Iraq praise God.  That's the only persons you're supposed to pay attention to.  If it's coming from the horses mouth you are about to receive it.

11-14-2021   Newshound/Intel Guru David M. Witty  Iraq expected to pay its last financial compensation to Kuwait by the end of this year for 1990 invasion. There is disagreement about how much is owed, ranging from $476 million to about $630 million.

11-14-2021   Newshound Guru Kaperoni  the Iraqi dinar investment into a lottery ticket. [?]  As if it's something that's going to randomly just increase in value. Everyone should understand that that's not how monetary policy works... since they reduced the value of the dinar at the beginning of this year, there has been a significant increase in the supply of it in Iraq. 100 trillion dinars was stated by an economist just a few weeks ago. There is no way they can RV the Iraqi dinar.

11-14-2021   Intel Guru Frank26  [Firefly boots-on-the-ground Iraqi TV update]  FIREFLY:  They're on television again - CBI news.  They're talking about Iraq's gold reserves.  They told us they have 96.4 tons of gold in our reserves and Iraq needs a balance in the basket of reserves and currency...they keep repeating it I guess they're trying to make sure we understand...


Catnip's Corner:
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ARTICLE 1 (from PM Kadhimi's website)

At the time this report was submitted, there are no new articles posted on PM Kadhimi's website.

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ARTICLE 2 (from Government of Iraq twitter account)

At the time this report was submitted, there are no new tweets posted on the Government of Iraq twitter account.

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ARTICLE 3

The Mayor of the Capital announces the date of the “Iraq 100” exhibition on the occasion of the country’s centenary and the annual Baghdad Day
2021.11.14 - 20:24
Baghdad - people

Mayor of Baghdad, Alaa Maan, announced, on Sunday, the holding of the "Iraq 100" exhibition for art posters, tomorrow, Monday.

A statement of the secretariat, a copy of which was received by "Nass", said that "the Mayor of Baghdad Alaa Maan announced the establishment of the Iraq 100 Exhibition for Art Posters in cooperation with the International Excellence Award team on the occasion of the centenary of the Iraqi state and the annual Baghdad Day."

The statement added, "The Baghdad Municipality has issued a general invitation to all to attend the exhibition, which will be held tomorrow, Monday at six o'clock in the hall of the Society of Fine Artists in Al-Mansour. and Iraqi and non-Iraqi students.

He explained, "The Mayor of Baghdad, Architect Alaa Maan, sponsored this exhibition in conjunction with the annual celebration of Baghdad Day, as well as a celebration of the centenary of the modern Iraqi state, and a revival of the role of art in revitalizing and developing community behavior and the city's aesthetic."

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ARTICLE 4

Iraq publishes the full confessions of the deputy leader of ISIS
November 14, 2021

Today, Sunday, the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq published the full confessions of the deputy leader of the “ISIS” organization in Iraq and Syria, Sami Jassem al-Jubouri, known as “Haji Hamid”, a few weeks after the Iraqi authorities announced his arrest in an intelligence operation that it said took place outside the Iraqi borders. .

The newspaper of the Supreme Judicial Council in Iraq reported lengthy confessions of al-Jubouri, who, after the killing of the founder and leader of the spiritual organization, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in an American raid at the end of October 2019 inside Syrian territory, held several positions, most notably the supervisor of what is known as “the Levant Province”, and finally Financial and administrative officer in the organization.

It is believed that the Turkish authorities helped Iraq arrest al-Jubouri, according to what Iraqi officials had previously said, but the Supreme Judicial Council spoke today that the process of chasing the leader of the organization took place in several European cities, where he was lured before being caught.

Al-Jubouri's confessions included part of the organization's crimes in Iraq and Syria, in addition to its inception and establishment and the conflict with the "Al-Nusra Front" in Syria.

Al-Jubouri, who is currently being tried according to Article 4 of the Anti-Terrorism Law in Iraq, said that the organization was receiving royalties from merchants and wealthy people in Nineveh (northern Iraq) amounting to $500,000 per month.. Those who refuse to pay face death.

He revealed that "the organization's imports during two years from (oil smuggling) amounted to more than one billion and a quarter billion dollars annually, handed over to the Bait Al-Mal Diwan

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ARTICLE 5

Researchers determine the ideal time to sleep and maintain a healthy heart
11/14/2121 | 8:48 pm

Sticking to a specific hour of sleep may be one of the easiest ways to reduce your risk of cardiovascular disease in the future.

A new study has found that sleeping between 10 and 11 p.m. is linked to a lower risk of heart disease.

In the study, the results of which were published in the European Heart Journal - Digital Health among others, researchers found that those who went to bed late - in the middle of the night or later - had a 25 percent higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease. Compared to their peers who went to bed between ten and eleven at night.

And for those somewhere in the middle who tended to sleep between 11 p.m. and midnight, the risk of heart disease was 12 percent higher than for those who slept between 10 and 11.

Another interesting finding from the researchers is that the risk also lurks for those who sleep early, and the risk rises by 24 percent for those who sleep before 10 pm, which means that if you want to use your sleep time for the benefit of your heart health in the future. You have a very limited and limited amount of time to sleep each night.

This study is based on data collected over 7 days on the sleeping and waking habits of more than 88,000 participants.

Dr David Flins from the University of Exeter, who wrote the study, said: 'Our research indicates that the optimal bedtime is at a specific point in the body's 24-hour cycle, and any deviation from this schedule can have a negative impact on health.

He considered that the most dangerous time to sleep is after midnight, because it reduces the chance of exposure to morning light, and exposure to it is what “resets” the body clock.

"Although the results do not establish causation, sleep time emerges from the study as a potential risk factor for heart disease - which stands independently and is not associated with other risk factors or other sleep characteristics," Flyns continued.

"If our findings are supported by further research, setting a bedtime and maintaining basic sleep habits may be low-cost preventive measures that will succeed in reducing heart disease risk in the general population," the researcher explained

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