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Why Iraq's Economy Never Recovered From The U.S. Invasion

Ones and Tooze

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The Debarthification of the Iraqi State

There was no one really taking these economic questions seriously it seems like at the time. Bremer's move early on to debarthify the state structures, which essentially meant firing everyone from the public services slashed away the structures of the Iraqi state that actually held the economy together. If you demolish the bath estate, you're not left with very much. And broadly speaking, dysfunction.

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