Expeditionary Economics, Make Entrepreneurs, Not War

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Looney, Robert
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2013
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The hearts and minds of the citizens of impoverished countries, we’ve been told time and again, can’t be won without filling their bellies. Yet nine years after the U.S. invasion of Iraq - and tens of billions in reconstruction aid later - Iraq’s GDP barely exceeds the prewar high. Worse, the economy remains almost wholly dependent on oil, which generates 90 percent of tax revenues and more than 80 percent of export revenues.
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The Milken Institute Review, Second Quarter 2013, pp. 31-37.
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This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.
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