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Author Jalal, Ferhang

Title The Role of Government in the Industrialization of Iraq 1950-1965 (RLE Economy of Middle East)
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (157 pages)
Series Routledge Library Editions: The Economy of the Middle East
Routledge Library Editions: The Economy of the Middle East
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page ; Original Copyright Page ; Table of Contents; List of Tables; Preface; I Government and Economic Development: 1920-50; 1 Conditions in 1920; 2 Government Development Effort 1921-50; 3 Conditions in 1950; 4 Main Problems of Development; II The Organization and Administration of Government Investment Programmes: 1950-65; 1 The Development Board 1950-58; 2 The Planning Board 1959-65; 3 The Ministry of Industry; 4 Administrative Defects; III Formulation of Government Investment Programmes: 1951-65
1 Plans of the Development Board2 Plans of the Planning Board; 3 Size of Plans; 4 The Sectoral Allocation; 5 The Choice of Projects; IV Implementation of Government Investment Programmes: 1951-65; 1 The Experience of Implementation; 2 The Main Causes of Failure; V Financial Institutions and Industrialization; 1 Commercial Banks and the Finance of Industry; 2 The Industrial Bank; VI Other Policies to Promote Industrialization; 1 Protection; 2 Tax Exemption; 3 The Licensing of Industrial Enterprises; VII Summary and Conclusions; Bibliography; Index
Summary Since 1950 the governments of Iraq have attempted vigorously to develop the economy and have stressed industrial development. Here Dr Ferhang Jalal discusses, analyses and appraises a number of policies adopted by the government of Iraq designed to promote the growth of the industrial sector. The policies were of two kinds: the establishment of enterprises financed, constructed and operated by the government; and the encouragement of the expansion of private industrial enterprises through provision of finance, by way of tax exemptions of all kinds, through controls over the allocation of invest
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Subject Industrial policy -- Iraq
Industrial policy
Iraq
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317592174
1317592174