The investment environment in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and its effect on attracting investment for the time period (2006-2016)

Abstract

It kicks off search of a problem that it is in spite of the presence of some ingredients key to the economy of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and of the natural, human and financial resources, but there is a lack clear and real investments, whether it is domestic or foreign, so there is an urgent need to create and that are related to encouraging and attractive investment environment largely political, security and economic stability. From this point of research is to analyze the investment environment in the Kurdistan region of Iraq, as well as determine aspects of attracting domestic and foreign funds and economic sectors of the capital. To achieve this goal, the research on descriptive analysis and comparative analysis of the reality of the investment environment in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on the basis of the available data and information support. The most important findings of the research that the investment environment in the Kurdistan region of Iraq weak and need a lot of administrative and economic changes in the area of ​​creation of elements to attract local and foreign investment. And then propose a number of proposals from the most important need for government intervention to adopt a clear and appropriate strategies concerning the basic components of the investment environment by giving role and priority to the private sector alongside the public sector, and make some adjustments in the investment law for the benefit of investors on the one hand, and the specificity of the sectors in the Kurdistan Region of On the other hand.