Immigrants mediate the development of 40% of exports to Afghanistan
According to IRNA’s economic correspondent, “Mirabutaleb Badri” said today (Saturday) at a meeting to review the economic and commercial capacities of immigrants in developing relations with neighbors in the Tehran Chamber: Recent studies in Italy show 2.4 million immigrants in this country 9% of Have generated $ 130 billion in GDP; Based on these figures, Italy is the 17th largest economic power in the world.
“We need unskilled and skilled immigrants in the country,” he said. “Studies show that immigrants in 10 developing countries have not had an impact on employment, because this workforce takes over part of the jobs that the local workforce does.” They open their heads.
The Director General of the Export Development Office of the Trade Development Organization pointed out: In the Trade Development Organization, meetings were held with immigrants to help develop the country’s exports according to their knowledge of the source market. .
He noted: “Immigrants play a major role in non-oil exports. Given the $ 70 billion growth in non-oil exports over the horizon of 1404, the reliance on exports to neighbors is on the shoulders of the migrants whose identification work has begun.”
4 million immigrants live in Iran
Also in this meeting, “Bahman Eshghi”, the secretary of Tehran Chamber of Commerce, Industries, Mines and Agriculture, pointed out: after the imposed war, a large part of the reconstruction of the country was on the shoulders of immigrants; A great job that would not have been possible without the help of Afghan refugees.
He said that migration can be examined from two human-social and economic aspects, adding that Iran is located on a dangerous geopolitical fault that has been constantly shaking in the last two centuries, which is why Iran as a The country has seen steady growth in immigration.
Eshghi stressed that according to statistics, four million immigrants live in Iran: Iran, with one percent of the world’s population, but 2% of the world’s immigrants, which cultural proximity has facilitated social digestion.
He stressed: “With every 10 percent increase in migration in the world, 1.5 percent of world trade grows, which, given that Iraq and Afghanistan are today Iran’s largest export destinations, even if we do not consider a specific program, naturally Iranian goods They are taken to these countries, so immigration is an opportunity for Iran.
Eshghi expressed the hope that one day the nations will live together peacefully in the Middle East and that if there is migration, it will not be forced.
According to IRNA, from the beginning of this year to the end of October, exports to Afghanistan decreased by 16% in value compared to last year to 3 million 57 thousand tons of goods worth 1 billion 271 million dollars.
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