Iraq: Selected Issues

Selected Issues
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Volume/Issue: Volume 2017 Issue 252
Publication date: August 2017
ISBN: 9781484314999
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Labor , Economics- Macroeconomics , Public Finance , Taxation - General , ISCR , CR , Iraq , revenue , wage , rate , tariff , wage bill , bill growth , public sector wage premium , tariff rate , custom duty collection , rate in Iraq , Tax administration core functions , Pensions , Customs administration core functions , Personal income tax , Global , Africa , Middle East , North Africa

Summary

This Selected Issues paper discusses the need to reduce Iraq’s current expenditure to create fiscal space for inclusive growth. Iraq’s public spending is high in international comparison and is driven by its two largest components: compensation of public employees and social transfers. The reform of social welfare cash transfer programs promises to improve their large targeting errors and result in greater capacity to address poverty at a lower fiscal cost. The government also needs to introduce further amendments to the draft pension bill and critically review programs benefiting victims of war and political persecution to improve their targeting and limit their potential for abuse and a negative impact on the labor supply.