Iraq's Public Budget for 2015 Ambition & challenges

Abstract

One of the most critical functions of the government is the devising and planning for the Public Budget for the coming years. Studying any budget of any given state would directly reflect on its intentions and collective direction during a certain time span. Since all allocations represent the government's agenda and time plan for coming years. And the size of each allocation would measure the priority of each budgetary item. Because of the eminent importance of the public budget planning in Iraq, a country of abundant riches and human resources that flow in the national economy, we present this research that would cover the resources versus expenditures of Iraq's public budget endured by the government to sustain its various sectors.

The research consists of five core issues; the first: the forward of the research and its approach that adopted two propositions: the first concerns Iraq's prospective multi-resource planning along with the setting of high level coordination between both financial and investment policies in the government     to achieve this goal. The second prospective is based upon the governmental sides' reliance upon a number of priorities for laying down allocations of the public budget that secure internal requirements on first hand and founding investment projects that ensures large scale employment and establishing a sustainable working environment on the second. The second core element was dedicated for the theory part of research that explores best means of public budget planning. The third covers the constituents of public budget in Iraq and their nature, in relation to income and expenditures. The fourth part deals with the main issues and challenges related with Iraqi public budget 2015, and the following years in terms of the financial and security crises sweeping the country.  The research closes by the fourth part that includes the results concluded by the researcher through his display of the elements covered by the essay supported by data and case studies that were experimented de facto, among which public expenditures inflation was identified since most of it composes operational expenses and weak feasibility analysis related to investment resulting in repeated funding demand. Recommendations set by the researcher supported the points he had identified as crucial and should be sought in any improvement made in setting the public budget in Iraq.