Analysis of the Current Financial Crisis : Causes and Solutions (Iraqi crisis a model , based on the public budget for the fiscal year 2016)

Abstract

The research aims to analysis of the current financial crisis in Iraq through knowing its causes and then propose some solutions that help in remedy the crisis and that on the level of expenditures and revenues, and has been relying on the Federal general budget law of the Republic of Iraq for the fiscal year 2016 to obtain the necessary data in respect of the current expenditures and revenues which necessary to achieve the objective of the research , and through the research results has been reached to a set of conclusions which the most important of them that causes of the current financial crisis in Iraq , mainly belonging to increased expenditures and especially the current ones and the lack of revenues , especially non-oil ones , as well as dependence of Iraq on the oil as main source of revenue make it more target to aggravation the financial crisis because of declining oil prices will affects minusly on public budget revenues and lead to increase the total deficit. Based on the conclusions that have been reached it has been proposed numerous recommendations which from the most important of them necessity of reducing the current expenditures , especially high salaries through modification it , andadjusting the current pension law by reducing the legal age of retirement and years of service for the country employees to provide large sums of money and to remedy the career surplus existing in most of the country offices , and necessity of diversification the other non-oil revenue sources through the activation of agriculture, industry and the expansion of tourism and increase local production and try to increase the exports of non-oil to increase the money entering the country