The Impact of Public Spending (Expenditures) on Economic Growth in Iraq for the Period 2004-2019

Abstract

Although public expenditures are a tool used by the state to manage public revenues and satisfy public needs, they are one of the most important tools of the country's financial policy, through which the state intervenes in economic and social life and translates the objectives of economic policy into real projects and programs of work. It is possible to assess the performance of the government by studying and analyzing the development and structure of the general budget, and despite the high volume of public expenditures in Iraq during the research period, the state was not able to achieve the economic and social goals represented by achieving high rates of growth and economic and social balance, as there was an imbalance In the structure of public expenditures, and this leads to an imbalance in the public budget, which reinforced its deepening, which is also reflected in the imbalance in the economic structure of the country.