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Banking Association: Reducing inflation helped stabilize commodity prices
Economy News - Baghdad
The Private Banks Association confirmed, on Saturday, that the government's success in reducing the inflation rate to 3.8% helped stabilize commodity prices.
The Executive Director of the Private Banks Association, Ali Tariq, said in a statement reported by the official news agency, and reviewed by "Al-Eqtisad News", that "the Private Banks Association and the Central Bank of Iraq held a symposium entitled (The Statistics Cycle in Formulating Monetary Policy)," indicating that "the use of statistical data and information is a methodology adopted by the Central Bank of Iraq, especially in the recent period in making decisions, whether at the level of monetary policy or decisions that affect the economy in general."
He added that "the aim of the symposium is to clarify economic, financial and banking data to the public by specialists; to view the data published on the website of the Central Bank of Iraq; to clarify progress and shortcomings related to the financial sector or monetary policy."
Tarek stressed that “one of the important indicators is related to the banking sector, the size of deposits, or the size of the monetary mass and the distribution of deposits between the government and private banking sectors, in addition to the impact of credit and loans on the gross domestic product,” explaining that “on the other hand, as economic indicators, the most important of which were inflation rates, which decreased significantly in the recent period to reach 3.8 percent,” noting
that “this is considered an excellent rate that maintains the stability of commodity prices, and thus the price increase is less for the citizen."
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Parliamentary Finance to NINA: Approval of 2025 general budget schedules after legislative recess
Baghdad / NINA / The Parliamentary Finance Committee revealed the date for approving the schedules of the Federal General Budget Law for the new year 2025.
Committee member, MP Moeen Al-Kazemi, stated in a statement to the National Iraqi News Agency / NINA /, that "the Council of Representatives will enter the legislative recess on the ninth of this month, and there is a trend to extend the work of the sessions for only one month, after which the schedules of the General Budget Law 2025 will be approved."
He added, "After settling the issue of electing the Speaker of Parliament, the conditions are now ready and favorable for approving the four laws: the draft amendment to the General Amnesty Law, the proposed Personal Status Law, the draft law on military service and retirement for the Mujahideen of the Popular Mobilization Forces, and the draft law to return the properties covered by the decisions of the dissolved Revolutionary Command Council to their owners."
He continued, "There is an expected ministerial change, and this places the parliamentary committees before an important and great responsibility to activate their role in following up on the work of the government. It also requires more understanding and harmony in the State Administration Coalition to approve the change of some ministers." / End
