سبل معالجة عجز الموازنة العامة في العراق

الملخص EN

To continue to increase expenditures over revenues in the general budget laws from 2003 until now; Because of the government's reliance on financing the general budget on oil revenues by more than 90%, meaning that the oil sector is unique in financing the general budget, so if global prices are shaken, the state falls into a suffocating crisis threatening the state's financial and economic system, which is what happened with the drop in oil prices and economic deterioration What happened in 2020 and which is still going on due to the deterioration of the global health situation, which led to a very large exacerbation of the financial deficit, which prompted the government to search for a solution to address that deficit, but the solutions were patching which led to the exacerbation of the financial deficit even more.

The Iraqi government was unable to deal with it, or at least put the financial system in the way of solution and treatment, due to the inability of successive governments to build the productive sectors in the country, which made them collapse and decay due to government negligence Moreover, if the government wants to search for real solutions to get rid of the fiscal deficit that dominated the public budget and paralyzed public utilities and threatens the entire financial system, it must first work to reform the administrative system to get rid of corruption and waste public money, and secondly it must activate or re-activate the productive sectors In all its forms (industrial, commercial, agricultural, tourism, etc.), as these steps represent effective solutions to address the crisis we are living in today