Scopus Research — Abdulmahdi Raheem Hamza Al Owaidi

The research examines the impact of Iraq-China trade relations on Iraq’s trade balance as well as economic growth in the period 2000-2023. By adopting the Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) technique, it evaluates time series data in order to identify patterns and make discriminating projections. The conclusion identifies that China has emerged as Iraq’s leading trade partner and that the partnership has had a great influence on the nation’s trade balance. Nevertheless, the reality that Iraq has over-reliance in exporting crude oils coupled with the seriousness of economic diversification has bound the partnership’s hands and made it impossibility to enhance long-term economic development. The researcher advocates that the policy needs to initiate policies aimed at increasing the size of the Iraqi economic base as well as solidifying the gain accrued in its Chinese trade. The evidence identifies that in as much as the reality that crude petroleum export has improved Iraq’s trade status in relation to China, the trade balance remains getting worse as the import rises in China. The crude oil prices remained the main determinant shaping both Iraq’s trade balance as well as overall economic development for the period. In an attempt to overcome these challenges, the research posits that the Iraqi government needs to strive in increasing value-added production, diversification of the export categories, as well as better Chinese trade agreements. Furthermore, the research adds in identifying China’s Belt and Road Initiative economic effects in the region of the Middle East as well as providing information for South-South economic cooperation dynamics. © 2025, Social Sciences Research Society. All rights reserved.

The poverty reduction has been the significant factor for the success of the country and also included this factor in the sustainable development goals and this aspect needs the researchers’ emphasis. Hence, the present article investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and economic development (ED) on the poverty reduction (PR) in Iraq. The study also used the employment and industrialization as the control variables. The study gathered the secondary data from the World development Indicators (WDI) from 1991 to 2023. The study also employed the dynamic Autoregressive distributed lag (DARDL) model to check the nexus among the variables. The outcomes indicated that the FDI, ED, employment and industrialization have a negative association with poverty count and positive association with PR in Iraq. The article guides the policymakers in making the policies regarding to reduce the poverty using effective FDI, ED, industrialization and employment rate. © (2024), (Social Sciences Research Society). All rights reserved.

The budget deficit is one of the most common problems the Iraqi economy faces before and after 2003. The causes of this deficit are the mismanagement of public funds on the one hand. The socio-economic problems caused by wars, economic sanctions, and terrorism, on the other hand, and the study tries to clarify the relationship between the state budget deficit, inflation rates, and the high level of public debt in Iraq for the period 2010-2018. © 2022, Association Res Militaris. All rights reserved.