Reconstructing the performance of the Iraqi economy 19502006: an essay with some hypotheses and many questions

Owen, Roger C.

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“…On the other hand, the assessment and evaluation of the implemented institutional policies in post-war Iraq and their impacts on Iraq's political economy and its performance have been the subject of extensive analysis by Dodge (2003Dodge ( , 2013aDodge ( , 2013bDodge ( , 2013c, Davis (2007), Owen (2007), Mahdi (2007), Abboud (2009) and Yousif and Davis (2011).…”

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Economic growth, abrupt institutional changes and institutional policies: The case of an oil-exporting country

El-Joumayle

2016

International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies

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This article deals with economic growth in Iraq when formal institutions are subject to abrupt institutional change. The article follows a quantitative mode of enquiry to determine the impacts of institutional changes on economic performance. I built an expanded and updated version of Rowat's model for the Iraq war of 2003. Thus, I estimate the effects of oil price, oil production, and abrupt institutional change in terms of war on Iraq's gross domestic product (GDP) for 1971-2012. Likewise, I estimate the effects of the new institutional arrangements on the country's economic performance for the sub-period 1998-2012. The results demonstrate that the 2003 war and institutional arrangements have had a negative and significant effect on GDP growth, while the effects of both oil production and oil prices are positive but the latter is not statistically significant. In line with these findings, a static comparative analysis was also carried out for before and after the 2003 war. On one hand, the results show the destructive realities of the wars at the macro level and on the standard of living for common citizens and, on the other, the findings illustrate the 106 difficulties and challenges related to creating institutional arrangements in the post-2003 war period that can enhance or promote sustained economic growth.

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Economic growth, abrupt institutional changes and institutional policies: The case of an oil-exporting country

El-Joumayle

2016

International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies

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“…Of course, the private sector has always had a significant role in the Iraqi economy and the report argues that reviving it and encouraging economic growth must be pro-poor in relation to incomes and living standards. However, any presumption against the value of state employment and in favour of privatization is a hallmark of neo-liberalization (Mahdi 2008;Owen 2007). The report treats human security as a matter of rights: it identifies three factors favouring human security -secure basic rights, secure socio-economic rights and good governance (Iraq MoPDC/BH 2008: 19).…”

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Variegated neo-liberalization, human development and resistance: Iraq in global context

Herring

2012

International Journal of Contemporary Iraqi Studies

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Critics of the concept of human development argue that it has for the most part been easily absorbed into neo-liberalizing frameworks that neglect national, material development and that fail to prioritize the poor and insecure. While those criticisms have some force, more attention needs to be paid to the opportunities for resistance afforded by the fact that neo-liberalization is permeated by self-undermining contradictions and must articulate in hybrid and diverse fashion with existing social forces. When Iraq's human development report, national development plan and poverty reduction strategy are examined, we can see in them elements of resistance to neo-liberalization and evidence of the assertion of development -national and human, material and non-material -as a right. However, in assessing poverty in Iraq as 'very shallow', Iraq's poverty reduction team demonstrated that resistance to neo-liberalization and the neglect of the poor will require struggles with Iraqi as well as global actors.Neo-liberalization as a process of commodification and marketization has become a powerful force in global politics. It is also producing resistance in the form of opposition at varying levels of awareness and organization.

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Das politische System der Region Kurdistan im Irak seit 1991

Wehinger

2011

Politische Herrschaft Jenseits Des Staates

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Die Region Kurdistan im Irak besteht im Wesentlichen aus den drei Provinzen Dohuk, Erbil und Sulaimaniyya im Norden des Landes mit Teilen der angrenzenden Provinzen unter De-facto-Verwaltung der Kurden. Sie entstand nach dem Golfkrieg von 1991, als die Kurden die Verletzbarkeit der irakischen Regierung zum Aufstand gegen das Baath-Regime nutzten und aufgrund der Gegenmaßnahmen der irakischen Armee eine Schutzzone unter Überwachung der westlichen Alliierten eingerichtet wurde. Seitdem steht das Gebiet unter der Kontrolle von zwei Gruppierungen mit starker Fokussierung auf ihre Chefs: der Kurdischen Demokratischen Partei (KDP) unter dem Vorsitz von Massud Barzani, Sohn des legendären Kurdenführers Mustafa Barzani (1903–1979), sowie der Patriotischen Union Kurdistans (PUK) mit dem Generalsekretär Jalal Talabani. Die Region Kurdistan unterscheidet sich in mindestens zwei Aspekten von anderen politischen Systemen des Vorderen Orients: Zum einen befindet sie sich seit der Trennung von der Zentralregierung in Bagdad im Zustand fortwährender Transformation, die ihren Ausdruck in der Gründung eigener kurdischer Verwaltungsstrukturen und anschließenden Kämpfen zwischen rivalisierenden Gruppen findet

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Reconstructing the performance of the Iraqi economy 19502006: an essay with some hypotheses and many questions

Cited by 5 publications

References 2 publications

Economic growth, abrupt institutional changes and institutional policies: The case of an oil-exporting country

Economic growth, abrupt institutional changes and institutional policies: The case of an oil-exporting country

Variegated neo-liberalization, human development and resistance: Iraq in global context

Das politische System der Region Kurdistan im Irak seit 1991

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