Measuring and analyzing the impact of trade openness on economic growth in Iraq for the period (2000-2022)

Abstract

Measuring and analyzing the impact of trade openness on economic growth in Iraq for the period (2000-2022), as the research aimed to analyze the reality of the evolution of the impact of trade openness on economic growth in Iraq during the research period, as the research was based on the hypothesis that there is an uncontrolled causal relationship between trade openness And economic growth, the Autoregressive Time Lapse Model (ARDL) was used, as it was applied to time series for each of the gross domestic product, trade openness, total foreign trade, population, inflation, and the interest rate. Perhaps the reason for this is due to the fact that the Iraqi economy is a rentier economy that relies on oil as a source of direct income, and thus more trade openness on the export side. on goods imported into Iraq.