Analysis of the Economic Behavioral Growth, Technological Change and Productivity in Iraq Pre-Invasion

Abstract

It is being repeatedly theorized that most of Arabic countries are still have long road for development. Classified as developing countries they should be requiring improvements in their economic performance parameters and the behavior of their productive variables. However, Iraq was a unique case, where many said that it was an already developed country before the first American invasion. The current paper uses historic production data to analyze some production parameters and functions for Iraq. Evidence are that Iraq was truly a developed country with improvements in all the previously mentioned issues.

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Keywords: Iraq, Behavioral Growth, Economic Parameters, Production Function

JEL Classification: A00, A10, B2, B20, B21, B22, B23