Iraq's Burdens: Oil, Sanctions, and Underdevelopment

by Abbas Alnasrawi

Overview

The overabundance of finance brought in by oil has ironically hindered rather than helped Iraqi economic growth and prosperity over the past 50 years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780313013768
Publisher:	ABC-CLIO, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/30/2002
Series:	Contributions in Economics and Economic History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	267 KB

About the Author

ABBAS ALNASRAWI is the John H. Converse Professor of Economics, the University of Vermont. He is the author of The Economy of Iraq: Oil, Wars, Destruction of Development and Prospects (Greenwood Press, 1994) and Arab Nationalism, Oil, and the Political Economy of Dependency (Greenwood Press, 1991).

Table of Contents

	Tables	ix
	Acknowledgments	xi
1	The International Context of the Iraqi Oil Industry	1
2	The Rise and Decline of a National Oil Industry	19
3	Oil and Development in Iraq	37
4	Invasion, Sanctions, and Bombing	61
5	Sanctions after the Gulf War	79
6	Sanctions and the Economy	93
7	Oil under Sanctions	117
8	Burdens in the Future	135
9	Conclusions and Prospects	159
	Selected Bibliography	169
	Index	177