الإجراءات الإصلاحية للورقة البيضاء وتأثيرها على الفئات الهشة في العراق

Abstract EN

Since beginning of 2020, Iraq suffered a three dimensional crisis (political, economic and health), after resignation of the government as a result of thousands young people’s violent demonstrations demanding the provision of basic services (drinkable water, electricity and job opportunities for thousands of unemployed).

Which coincided with one of the worst economic and financial crises that afflicted the global economy and left negative effects on the Iraqi economy, represented by the double crisis of the Corona pandemic and the severe economic decline as a result of the Great Lockdown imposed globally due to the spread of the pandemic, and the collapse of global oil prices.

This triple crisis has led to a large financial deficit that prompted the Iraqi government to borrow directly from the Central Bank of Iraq with (27) trillion dinars to pay the salaries of employees and retirees and the government's regular expenditures.

This prompted it to present a reform program called the White Paper, which charted a path for economic reform and diversified its sources over a period of time ranging from three to five years.

After more than a year of implementation of White Paper, we find these reforms have left negative effects on Iraqi society, represented by a decrease in real incomes of individuals and high rates of inflation and poverty, and from here the research came to study the most important of these negative effects of reform measures of the White Paper on the fragile groups in Iraqi society.