ABSTRACT

This study cannot properly be entitled 'Iraq's Economic Policy' because, due to the strong British influence on its governments, Iraq did not have the power to decide its own policy in a free and unrestricted manner. At the same time, it would be equally incorrect to say that economic policy in Iraq was purely Britishdetermined since Iraq was, at least formally, an independent state in the period under study. The neutral term 'Economic Policy in Iraq' has therefore been chosen as the title least likely to distort the subject.