The College of Administration and Economics, Department of Economics, in cooperation with the Continuing Education Unit, organized a workshop entitled (Evaluation of National Plans in the Field of Investment in Iraq after 2003) presented by the lecturer Dr. Dawood Abdul-Jabbar.
The lecturer presented a review of the national plans in the field of investment after 2003 and defined planning as a tool or means to achieve development goals in proportion to the capabilities available to society, stressing that investment planning is the most important task of the economic planner within the framework of the process of planning economic activities in achieving the process of economic development and in improving the economic and social level and creating capital accumulation and achieving an economic surplus.
The workshop came out with a number of recommendations, the most important of which is to give great attention to the issue of determining the optimal size of the total investment and linking this to the absorptive capacity of the national economy and achieving growth rates that reduce bottlenecks and inflationary pressures by allocating sufficient amounts to the economic sectors that allow them to build a strong economic base to finance development plans and creating an effective regulatory body to determine the size of investment allocations and investment spending for economic projects.