Friday, October 25, 2024
Planning: Census operations will continue for two weeks starting from November 20, 25 oct
Planning: Census operations will continue for two weeks starting from November 20
10/25/2024
The Ministry of Planning confirmed today, Friday, that the date for conducting the census on November 20 is fixed and unchanged, while it indicated that its operations will continue for two weeks until December 3, 2024.
The ministry's spokesman, Abdul Zahra Al-Hindawi, said in a press statement, "The ministry has completed the requirements for conducting the population census," stressing that "the percentage of completion of the requirements for enumeration and numbering reached 96% in all governorates, except for the governorates of the Kurdistan Region, which reached 65%."
Al-Hindawi added, "The Ministry of Planning is anticipating the census as an event that has been absent from Iraq for 27 years, and has worked to provide all requirements for conducting the population census on 11/20-21/2024."
He added, "The population census project is huge and large and includes an inventory of everything above ground, including buildings, homes, and residential facilities," stressing, "the development of a comprehensive plan by the Ministry of Planning."
He explained that "the inventory and numbering process was preceded by aerial photo census operations for all buildings throughout Iraq," stressing that "the inventory and numbering operations witnessed the addition of 10% of buildings through aerial photos, which records the expansion of the construction and building movement in Iraq."
Al-Hindawi said, "The ministry has prepared 40,000 well-trained researchers to record population census data," stressing, "The process of training 80,000 enumerators has begun, so that the total number of researchers will be 120,000."
He stressed that "the census staff is capable of completing its tasks in the required manner," while he explained that "the census process is distributed to every 100 families by a researcher to record their basic data (number of individuals, gender, age)," stressing that "the announcement of the initial results includes the general census (number of females + number of males) and the population of each governorate."
He added, "The census process will continue until December 3, 2024. The counted family will be referred to record data (housing, health and education), and its results will be the end of the census." LINK
Economist Warns Of The Danger Of Currency Counterfeiting Mafias, 25 OCT
Economist Warns Of The Danger Of Currency Counterfeiting Mafias
Posted on 2024-10-25 by sotaliraq 2024/10/23 Mustafa Fleih Economic expert Safwan Qusay warned of the danger of currency counterfeiting mafias, and while explaining the mechanism to confront them, he stressed the need to move to financial inclusion to protect the Iraqi economy from these mafias, whether internal or external.
Qusay said in an interview that the process of investigating the source of the counterfeit dinar is backed by parties trying to harm the reputation of the Iraqi dinar and trying to launder dirty money and obtain goods in exchange for this money.
He pointed out that the Central Bank is keen to track such networks, and the security services are trying to reconsider any source that could enter Iraq from abroad or to print such counterfeit money inside it.
He stressed that the issue is related to the ability to develop a device to track the movement of the Iraqi dinar in the market and there is a “Serial Number” for each category of the currency and the process of transitioning to financial inclusion and introducing money into the banking system and Iraqis dealing with credit cards will prevent counterfeiters and counterfeiters of this currency from pumping the counterfeit category into the market.
He explained that the more quickly and immediately we switch to dealing with credit cards at the private sector level, given that the government apparatus in many ministries has begun to apply such technologies in credit cards, ATMs and revenue receipt cards, it can deprive anyone who thinks of counterfeiting or forgery from entering the Iraqi market.
He explained that when the value of the currency increases, the process of counterfeiting and forgery becomes economically fragmented, and the Iraqi dinar is now fully covered, and certainly a large part of the countries in the region have been harmed, and the fluctuations in their currency prices may lead to the emergence of such mafias that print this counterfeit currency outside Iraq and pump it into the local market. In addition to educating those who receive the dinar about its type, we need to have an investigation system linked to the Internet to detect counterfeit currency.
He stressed that the seller should not only refuse to receive the counterfeit currency, but also ask the holder of this counterfeit currency to know where he got it from so that the security services can investigate the source of this counterfeit currency mass, whether it is locally printed or internationally.
He pointed out that the Central Bank is keen to compensate the holder of the counterfeit dinar if he is unaware of such distinction, and the more we encourage citizens to report with financial rewards, the more we can reach the party behind the counterfeiting.
He added that counterfeiting tends towards the higher value, i.e. at the level of large denominations such as the large currency denominations of 50 thousand and 25 thousand, and we must encourage those who receive the Iraqi dinar to examine it and not only reject the counterfeit currency but also report the holder of this counterfeit currency to reach the perpetrator.
He noted that the dollar is counterfeited by international mafias and can be pumped into the informal market, so it is not detected by dealers, and dealers in the informal market may exploit it because they are unaware that there is a counterfeit dollar from countries that carry out counterfeiting at the international level.
He stressed the need to move towards financial inclusion to protect the Iraqi economy from these mafias, whether internal or external. LINK
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