VOL. XLV

No 35

2-September-2002

IRAQ

Shabibi On Recovery Of Iraqi Economy

In testimony to the US SenateCommittee on Foreign Relations on 1 August, UNCTAD consultant and Iraq expert Sinan al-Shabibi urged the US notto attack Iraq and its infrastructure despite the fact that the Iraqi peoplewould like to end dictatorship, pointing out that the countrys economy andsocial situation are already precariously unstable and that growth has beennon-existent (if not negative) since the Gulf War in 1990. He...