The Iraqi National Economy – Page 16 – Iraqi Economists Network

The World Bank: Iraq’s Economic Outlook – October 2018

Iraq’s economic condition is gradually improving following the deep economic strains of the last three years. The defeat of ISIS in end-2017 now leaves the challenging task of rebuilding the infrastructure and providing services and job opportunities to the population. This is overlaid on the need to address the legacy of past conflict and capacity/maintenance challenges, inc

An ‘Economic Development Board’ for Iraq, not a ‘Construction Board’! By Dr. Amer Korkis Hirmis* [‘Majlis al-Tanmiya al-Iqtisadiya’ lil al-‘Iraq, wa laysa ‘Majlis al-I’mār’!] The ‘Ministerial Programme’ presented to the Iraqi Parliament on October 25, 2018 by the new Prime Minister of Iraq, Mr. Adil Abd al-Mahdi, represents a positive qualitative improvement since 2003. Th

Last month, protests broke out in Basra after the Iranian government cut one-third of the total electricityused by Iraq’s second-largest city. Demonstrations against power shortages and other longstanding grievances such as unemployment quickly spread throughout Iraq’s Shia-majority south, leading Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to dismiss his minister of electricity. Ir

Abstract The challenges faced by Germany’s recent experience in Iraq reflect the complex and dynamic nature of engaging in conflict zones in the Middle East. An overlap between humanitarian concerns and national security interests formed the basis of Germany’s initial decision to deploy soldiers to northern Iraq, but once there, the complex reality and shifting power d

Abbas 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 economy of