التغيرات البنيوية في الاقتصاد العراقي

Abstract EN

Any country that is trying to achieve basic economic goals in the forefront of growth andstability and full employment.

Economic growth must include quantitative, qualitative andsustained changes in macroeconomic structure over several decades.

Because Iraq has enormous human and natural resources, foremost of which is oil, the Iraqieconomy has not undergone significant qualitative and quantitative changes in favor of economicgrowth as a strategic objective, but in a single economy that relies heavily on oil resources.

In order to examine the changes in the structure of the Iraqi economy, these changes in thestructure of the population were examined from a biological and a literal point of view.

Structuralchanges were also examined in the sectoral distribution of the GDP, the sectoral distribution of thelabor force and the structural changes in foreign trade.

Changes in population structure were not positive and did not contribute to the desiredeconomic growth.

The sectoral distribution of GDP and the sectoral distribution of the labor forcewas also not positive for achieving major economic objectives.

The analysis of changes in thestructure of foreign trade, resource use and the structure of aggregate demand in the Iraqi economyshows a decline in the contribution of capital formation in GDP, which is the main driver ofeconomic growth against the growth of the share of total consumption and private sector exportsexcluding the oil sector.

The study concluded that the imbalance in the structure of the Iraqi economy has continuedas a result of a number of problems that began in the 1980s as a result of the war with Iran and theensuing economic siege throughout the 1990s, as well as the instability of the security andpolitical situation since 2003.