أثر الدين العام في التنمية الاقتصادية : العراق حالة دراسية - للمدة (2006-2017)‎

Abstract EN

The public debt (internal and external) has serious effects.

The most important of these effects is the obstruction of development efforts in all its forms, including economic development and its negative repercussions on economic development in Iraq.

The aim of the study is to study the phenomenon of public debt and to identify its size internally and externally, and to identify some indicators of economic development and its level of development (GDP, health, education) and to measure the impact of public debt on these indicators.

The research found that the hypothesis of research, ie the existence of an inverse relationship between the public debt and indicators of economic development in Iraq during the period of research, as the proportion of public debt decreased the proportion of indicators of economic development, and vice versa when the proportion of public debt has increased the proportion of indicators of economic development.

The study recommended the need to reduce the ratio of public debt to GDP and to resort to internal borrowing when there is a need to and away from external borrowing as much as possible, and increase the proportion of investment allocations in the general budget in accordance with the size of the need, and these investments will be an important tributary of GDP, Contributing to economic growth and development.