Measuring Some Indicators of The Iraqi Economic Growth for The Period (1980 – 2003)  

A THESIS

   SUBMITTED TO THE COUNCIL OF THE COLLEGE OF BUSINESS    ADMINSTRATION AND ECONOMICS IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIRMENT FOR THE MASTER DEGREE IN ECONOMICS SCIENCE .

BY

ROOA ALI HUSSEIN AL-FATLAWI

SUPERVISED BY

Asst.prof MOHSEN AB-DULLAH AL-RAJIHI ph.D.

     The subject of economic development, for all nation, regard as important subject now days, because it’s important effects on our life, and the economic development of our nation.

     But when we discuss this subject for our nation, we shall face more problems, because of the nature of political situations, and the wars which happened in Iraq through the 80th and 90th, and it’s effects on our economy. Then all this situation reflect it’s effects on our economy and cause irregular grouth for all sectors of the economy.

     So that our hypothesis research, is built as following.

Because there is not real strategy for the economic development, furthermore there is instability in the decisions especially in the long run, so that the conditions are not fulfilled and cause the following results:-

  1. weakness in the economic Performance for all activities especially in the main sectors.
  2. there is high dependent on the primary sectors. Especially the oil sector.
  3. the interdependent among sectors is strongly weak and more of that sectors depend on the import sector to obtain their input, so that our research, try to examine with care, this hypothesis, and we try to study the nature of the development of our economy through the interval of our study. Then our methodology depend on the deductive and inductive methods in order to reach our targets.

    There for our study contain the following chapters.

Chapter one: in this chapter we refer to the general concepts of the economic  development.

Chapter two: consist the analysis of the development of national product from 1980 to 2003.

Chapter three: we try to analysis the development of the constant capital from 1980 to 2003.

Chapter four: in this chapter we analysis the development of aggregate export and import for the interval from 1980 to 2003.

Chapter five: in this chapter we use the econometric and mathematical tools in order to obtain the digital results, so that to complete our analysis

Finally, we can say with regard to this analysis the true of our hypothesis.