Alnasrawi, Abbas. Iraq’s Burden: Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2002. 180 pp. (cloth). Download PDF Akram.AlnasrawiBook
Read MoreAbbas Alnasrawi is at the Department of Economics at the University of Vermont, Burlington, VT 05405, USA. E-mail: aalnasra@zoo.uvm.edu. ABSTRACT It is a well-known fact, of course, that Iraq has been under a UN Security Council system of comprehensive embargo for the past 10 years. The consequences of 'the embargo have been catastrophic for the people and the econ
Read MoreDepartment of Economics University of Vermont Burlington , VT . 05405 Prepared for UNU/WIDER Project on The Political Economy of Humanitarian Emergencies. First Project Meeting , 6 -8 October 1996. Most of the discourse on Iraq since the formal ending of the Gulf War in February 27, 1991 tended to focus on the economic embargo which the United Nations Security Counc
Read MoreThird World Quarterly Iraq: Economic Consequences of the 1991 Gulf War and Future Outlook Author(s): Abbas Alnasrawi Source: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1992), pp. 335-352 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3992780 Accessed: 22-05-2015 09:39 UTC On 2 August 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. This was
Read MoreSource: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Jul., 1986), pp. 869-895 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3991927 Accessed: 27-05-2015 18:07 UTC The Iraq-Iran war which has been going on for nearly six years will perhaps go down in history as one of the costliest conflicts in this century. It is estimated that
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