Dori calls Government to set effective strategy to eliminate poverty in Iraq

Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) MP Etab al-Dori of the Iraqiya Slate called to expedite adopting an active strategy to eliminate the poverty phenomenon through poverty the job opportunities in Iraq.

She said in a statement “There are some families who live extreme poverty especially in the southern province where the poverty rate ranges between 48_56 percent while in other provinces less than 10% as in Kurdistan Region.”

Dori stressed that “It is the Government’s responsibility to eliminate poverty by activating all the laws in this regard.”

She continued urging “The officials must be aware that the poverty is the main reason for spreading crimes, murders and robbery, also it contributes in making the citizens uneducated because leave the schools due to their unaffordable expenses.”