Measuring and analyzing the productivity of government spending on education in the Iraqi economy for the period (2004-2022)

Abstract

 The research means studying the measurement and analysis of the productivity of the government agreement on education in the Iraqi economy. The research included annual data for Iraq for the period (2004_2022) and this research derives importance in many aspects, including the importance of spending on education, which is the backbone and essence of the entire educational process, because it is an investment in human capital in the long term, and the vital role played by spending on education in raising the level of human development, as we start the research from the premise that the education sector exercises a major role in achieving development goals in Iraq Therefore, the increase in spending in Iraq While the problem of research is the weak role of the government and its inefficient management of economic resources while achieving human development goals, the education sector has been given a secondary role in its development policy, unlike other countries, the financial allocations to the education sector as a percentage of total public expenditure were low and did not meet the aspirations of advancing the development reality, The research acquires its importance from the standpoint that it is the subject of spending on education among the best investments in raising the rate of productivity, which in turn leads to economic and social development, so it is necessary to work to increase the efficiency of spending and know the problems faced by Iraq in particular, and the research seeks to achieve the goals, which is the theoretical rooting of government spending in the education sector, and the analysis of the development of productivity of government spending in the education sector in Iraq, and measuring and analyzing the productivity of government spending in the education sector in Iraq. In order to study the subject, achieve the goal and test the validity of the hypothesis, the deductive approach was adopted through the descriptive method in analyzing the theoretical side in order to give a theoretical background on the variables, while on the applied side, the quantitative method was adopted using the standard model to study the relationship between the variables, And reach the conclusions, the most important of which is that education directly affects productivity, as education contributes to the improvement and development of human resources by increasing the efficiency, intellectual capacity, absorptive and productivity of various sectors of the economy, as educated workers are more productive than uneducated workers, regardless of the nature of the production process. The most important recommendations are to focus economic strategies on economic diversification in Iraq through a well-managed privatization process in order to move away from the rentier economy through the design and implementation of industrial and productive development policies.