الاقتصاد العراقي بين الظاهرة الريعية وضرورات التنويع

Abstract

The oil sector and thus oil revenues play a fundamental role in the life of the Iraqi people, as they contribute about 70% of the gross domestic product, about 94% of the general budget resources, and 98% of the value of exports, and a simple look at those ratios shows that the Iraqi economy suffers from the dominance of the rentier or economic unilateral phenomenon. Because of the almost complete dependence on this sector for the conduct of life in general and the rest of the other economic activities , It is matched by the great neglect and the continuous marginalization of the role of other sectors (agricultural, industrial, and service), which led over time to the exacerbation of this phenomenon, causing chronic imbalances in the Iraqi economy, which pushed the direction of searching for strategies or scenarios based on clear scientific planning, which in turn leads to maximizing The productive capacities of the various economic sectors contribute to mitigating and reducing the rentier hegemony. The researcher adopted the descriptive analytical approach to reach a number of conclusions. The research also concluded with some proposals that he hopes will take their way to decision-makers and government departments in order to reduce this phenomenon towards the application of diversification mechanisms.