Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVIII

No 51

19-December-2005

IRAQ

Oil And Iraq's Economic Strategy

By Sabri Zire Al-Saadi

This article was written forMEES by economic advisor Sabri Zire al-Saadi, a UN former employee, who held senior economic posts in Iraq. Email: sabri_saadi@hotmail.com.

While the strategic role of oil in Iraq is well known, oil policy after the fall of the former regime became controversial in two aspects; first, because of the debate over public versus private ownership of the...