ترشيد الانفاق العام ودوره في تحقيق الاستدامة المالية في العراق

This paper discusses the rationalization of public spending and its role in achieving financial sustainability in Iraq. As the expansionary fiscal policy resulting in an increase in the fiscal deficit in the general budget, which the consequent worsening of the financial burden and the accumulation of government debt, both at the domestic level or the outside, and that the continued fiscal deficit and the expansion of government debt will adversely affect the performance of economic activity in general, and on the performance of government fiscal policy in particular, so research found that following the policy of rationalization of public expenditures is working to raise the efficiency of public spending to the highest degree possible, and taking into account the trade-offs in priorities between the aspects and fields of public spending, which in turn will help reduce the financial burden of the government and raise the cost-effectiveness of public expenditure. ـــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــــ (*) جزء مستل من اطروحة دكتوراه للباحث الثاني . and thus achieve surpluses financial in the general budget, and all this would bring economic and fiscal policy pursued by the government's objectives, to raise the well-being of the individual and the community, so be spending a producer when the government know how to use their financial resources may be so, so figured the importance of rationalizing public spending because the government governance is working to ensure the financial sustainability through its commitments to certain rules and programs, due to the scarcity of Mamtoffer on the subject of sources in Iraq, was the subject of research, who tried to highlight and clarify the concept of financial sustainability and the factors affecting it and analyze influences and thus applied to the Iraqi economy.