Analysis of Foreign Investment Trends in Iraq for the Period 2010-2016

Abstract

Foreign investment is one of the international instruments that the various developing and developed countries seek to attract or export in order to achieve a number of positive returns reflected on the economic, political and social reality of the country as one of the factors that have a direct impact on the gross domestic product of the country. As the engine and catalyst for the elements of production and raise the efficiency of production and service, and Iraq as other countries that require foreign investment services of both types to achieve the desired returns, and with all the incentives provided by Iraq in the amended investment law in 2015 for foreign investors, but it was not enough to stimulate foreign investment as well as the confusion in government policies to achieve balanced development between economic sectors and the instability of security and domestic political and international factors have encouraged the transfer of investments from the country to neighboring countries.