Iraq's poverty rate has decreased, according to the minister of labor
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- Today, 11:04
INA- Baghdad
Ahmed al-Asadi, Iraq's minister of labor and social affairs, declared on Thursday that the country's poverty rate had dropped.
"The poverty rate in Iraq decreased to 16.5%, and in Diyala it reached 18.8%, according to the outputs of the socio-economic census announced by the Ministry of Planning," Al-Asadi stated during a press conference in the province of Diyala, which was attended by an Iraqi News Agency (INA) reporter.
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