Fiscal policy & Federal Budget – Page 2

Iraqi Minister of Finance talk to the Media on the current Financial Situation.

The Iraqi News Agency (INA) opens (6) files with the Minister of Finance, including converting contracters and lecturers into employees and the 2022 budget Minister of Finance Ali Allawi revealed, today, Monday, that the total amount of the Food Security Law is subject to amendment, and while he settled the controversy over the file of the lecturers and their fate with turni

Introduction The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) stepped into 2022 with not enough cash to pay the December salaries of civil servants and pensioners; delayed to January 2022. Now, at mid-March, civil servants are going on strike and taking to the streets of Sulaymaniah to demand their February salaries. The evidence on the ground shows that the government developed a c

Introduction The Federal 2021 budget has been prepared by MOF and has been submitted to the council of ministers (COM), at the beginning of the budget year (January 2021). The COM has discussed and approved the draft budget and submitted to the council of representatives (COR), for further discussion and final approval. It has been taken about four months for the COR to comple

Contents Executive summary 3 INTRODUCTION 7 2.1. FMIS and the World implementation experience 7 2.2. Iraq Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) Implementation Experience (post 2003 period). 9 2.3. Lesson Learned 11 Government Enterprise Resource Planning (GERP) 12 3.1. GERP High Level Overview 13 3.2. Ira

INTRODUCTION This report summarizes key findings and recommendations from a remote technical assistance (TA) assignment performed by a short-term expert (STX), Mr. Djamel Bouhabel, from January 17 to February 4, 2021, to the General Customs Authority of Iraq (GCA). The main objective of the TA was to advise GCA on the development and effective application of customs assess