Iraq: the main problems of modern development and ways to overcome them

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The article analyzes the problems that have been gradually accumulating for half a century and have caused the current decline in the country's economy. For decades, Iraq has been subject to pressure and political crises that have prevented full and stable economic development. At the same time, Iraq has significant economic potential for sustained economic growth. The purpose of this article is to present an analysis of the main problems of economic development in Iraq since the end of the twentieth and the first decades of the twenty-first century. Research methods: analysis and generalization of economic indicators and the development of strategic ideas.

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Nadir Nadir Ahmed Ahmed

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)

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Email: 1042205142@rudn.ru

Postgraduate Student of the Department of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics

117198, Moscow, Miklukho Maklaya str., 6

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