العلاقة السببية بين التجارة الخارجية و النمو الاقتصادي في العراق للمدة 1980-2013

Abstract EN

It occupies foreign trade an important place in the Iraqi economy, as it represents a lifeline for him, because Iraq depends on export revenues to finance the economic development process, as well as to finance the import of consumer, investment and intermediate goods, and from this perspective have been taken this subject to be studied and analyzed.

The first section dealt with the concept of foreign trade and economic growth.

The second topic for standard analysis of the causal relationship between economic growth and foreign trade in Iraq for the period 1980-2013 has been allocated.

Has been built on this research assumed a positive causal relationship between economic growth and foreign trade and economic growth has a direct impact on foreign trade.

It was reached in this letter that the relationship between GDP and foreign trade growth is a causal relationship reciprocal, meaning that one affects the other.

And that Iraq is a developing country country has a lot of resources that qualify for the application of the policy of import substitution and export promotion policy together, unlike many developing countries which have only a limited amount of resources, which, if used in one of the two policies is difficult to use them in the other.