Welcome to our Listing of Iraq-related Reports!
Iraq, a country rich in history and natural resources, presents both opportunities and risks for stakeholders. For those looking to gain a deeper understanding of the country's landscape, a wealth of reports is available from various respected sources.
This collection of reports includes publications from international organizations, NGOs, think tanks and commercial bodies, providing practical guidance on doing business in Iraq, covering aspects like regulatory frameworks, investment opportunities, and the political and security landscape.
By exploring these reports, readers can equip themselves with the necessary knowledge to navigate the complexities of Iraq's current situation, assess risks, and identify potential opportunities.
If you want to understand Iraq, this is where to start.
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Doing Business in Iraq
- Ministry of Justice: Instructions of Recruiting, Employing and Permitting the Foreign Workers in Iraq
- Iraq Britain Business Council (IBBC): Ease of Doing Business in Iraq. Available in English and Arabic.
- Kapita Research: The Resilience Field Guide for Iraqi Businesses
- German Liaison Office for Commerce & Industry in Iraq (AHK Iraq): Double Taxation in Iraq - A Comparative White Paper
- Etihad Law: Pharma Legal Handbook
- Kapita Research: Turning Influence into Industry: Iraqi Creators and the Business of Self-Branding
- International Labour Organization (ILO): Guide to Business Registration in Iraq
- PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC): Doing Business in Iraq 2024 - a Tax and Legal Guide
- UK Department for International Trade: Doing business in Iraq (including the Iraqi Kurdistan region): Iraq trade and export guide
- World Bank: Ease of Doing Business in Iraq
- Invest Kurdistan: Doing Business in the Kurdistan Region
Investment, Stock Market
- Ahmed Tabaqchali: Monthly Review of Iraqi Market
- Iraq Securities Commission (ISC): Oversight Guide for Iraqi Brokerage Firms
- Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies: The Insurance Gap and Special Economic Projects in Iraq [Arabic]
- Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies: Legislative Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Iraq [Arabic]
- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ): Access to Finance for Iraqi Entrepreneurs
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Pathways for Climate Investment in Iraq
- Etihad Law: Guide to Sovereign Guarantees in Iraq
- Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies: Will Iraq's Real Estate Market Boom or Collapse?
- S&P Global Ratings: Credit rating, economic statistics and analysis
- Iraq Securities Commission (ISC): Annual Report for 2024 (Arabic)
- Rabee Securities: 2024 Annual Bulletin
- Iraq Venture Partners (IVP): Iraq Investment Landscape
- National Investment Commission (NIC): Investor Guide to Iraq 2024
- National Investment Commission (NIC): Iraq Investment Map 2024
- Invest Kurdistan: Invest in Kurdistan - Overview of Priority Sectors
- Rabee Securities: Latest Iraq Stock Market Reports
- Five One Invest: State of Investments in Iraq
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): The Iraq SDG Investor Map
- International Finance Corporation (IFC): Economic Recovery Creates Opportunity to Invest in SMEs
- National Investment Commission (NIC): Investment Law 2006, as amended 2010 and 2015
- Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG): Investment Law in the Iraqi Kurdistan Region of Iraq (2006)
Economics
- CIA World Factbook: Iraq
- Federal Board of Supreme Audit (FBSA): Annual Report for 2025
- Kapita Research: Iraq's National Health Insurance: Why the Market Changed
- Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies: Prerequisites for Expanding the Iraqi Oil Tankers Company
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Military Escalation in the Middle East - Economic and Social Implications
- Institute of Regional and International Studies (IRIS): Iraq Economic Review, February 2026
- German Liaison Office for Commerce & Industry in Iraq (AHK Iraq): Agriculture in Kurdistan 2025/2026
- German Liaison Office for Commerce & Industry in Iraq (AHK Iraq): Business Outlook, Fall 2025
- Central Bank of Iraq (CBI): National Financial Inclusion Strategy 2025-2029
- Central Bank of Iraq (CBI): Third Strategic Plan 2024 - 2026
- International Monetary Fund (IMF): World Economic Outlook
- Country Analysis Brief, Iraq: U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA)
- Ministry of Housing and Construction: National Housing Policy 2025-2030
- World Bank: MENAAP Economic Update
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Multidimensional Poverty in Iraq
- International Monetary Fund (IMF): 2025 Article IV Consultation (64-page assessment)
- International Monetary Fund (IMF): Executive Board Assessment
- International Monetary Fund (IMF): Unlocking Iraq's Economic Potential
- Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies: E-commerce: Platforms, E-stores, and the Iraqi Economy
- Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies: An Economic Perspective on Supporting Iraqi Industrial Projects
- Institute of Regional and International Studies (IRIS): Iraq Economic Review, November 2024
- World Bank: Macro Poverty Update, Oct 2024
- Makers of Baghdad: Mapping the Role of FinTech in Iraq
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Report on Small, and Medium-Enterprises (MSMEs) in Iraq
- Central Bank of Iraq (CBI): Sustainable Finance Roadmap and an Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) Code [Arabic]
- United Nations (UN): Land Use and Land Cover (LULC) classification for the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
- Iraq Britain Business Council (IBBC): Two Cheers for Iraq: The Dinar - Dollar Exchange Rate Challenges
- Central Bank of Iraq (CBI): National Strategy for Bank Lending for 2024-2029
- International Monetary Fund (IMF), International Labour Organization (ILO) and World Bank: Towards an Inclusive, Equitable and Sustainable National Pension System in Iraq
- International Monetary Fund (IMF): Iraq Country Report
- International Monetary Fund (IMF): 68-page report on the Iraqi economy
- World Bank: Global Economic Prospects
- American University of Iraq, Sulaimani (AUIS): The Underbelly of Iraq's 'Economic Boom'
- Ahmed Tabaqchali, World Food Program (WFP): Food Prices 2020-22 [English] [Arabic]
Crime, Security, Human Rights
- National Security Advisory: "Iraq First" National Security Strategy 2025-30
- European Union Agency for Asylum (EUAA): 189-page EU Country Guidance for Iraq
- UK Home Office: "Actors of Protection" in Iraq
- International Labour Organization (ILO): Plan for Safe Migration
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Second Trial Monitoring Report
- Transparency International: Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI)
- Financial Action Task Force (FATF): Anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures
- World Bank: Prosperity Data360 Justice
- United Nations Investigative Team for Accountability of Daesh/ISIL (UNITAD): Reports on the Crimes Committed by IS
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Trial Monitoring Report on grand corruption cases in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC): Drug Trafficking Dynamics Across Iraq and the Middle East
- Article 19: Reviews of the draft Right to Information Act (draft RTI Act)
- International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT): The Low Likelihood of ISIS Resurgence in Iraq
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Iraq Judicial System and Grand Corruption Cases - The Central Anti-Corruption Criminal Court
- US Department of State: 2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices: Iraq
- United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI): Accountability for Domestic violence in Iraq: Promoting justice and non-discrimination
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Politics
- Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies: Urgent Monetary and Fiscal Reforms Amid Iraq's Oil Export Crisis
- Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies: Financial Transformations in Iraq (2014-2024): Money Supply Growth and Rising Domestic Debt
- Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies: The Development Road and Iraq-Iran Railway Link as a Model
- Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael): Iraq's elections: greater fragmentation among the usual elite suspects
- International Organization for Migration (IOM): Update on Internal Displacement in Iraq (March 2026)
- UK Parliament: Iraq: Introductory country profile
- International Organization for Migration (IOM): Plan to Promote Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration
- Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies: The Pension System in Iraq: Reform Strategies and Social Justice
- Al-Bayan Center for Planning and Studies: Understanding the Impact of the Decline of Federalism in Iraq
- Central Bank of Iraq (CBI): Guide to Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) Standards
- International Organization for Migration (IOM): Intersecting Drivers of Iraqi Emigration
- UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR): Impact Assessment of Refugee Education Integration Policy (REIP)
- Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael): China in Iraq
- World Bank: Iraq Gender Landscape
- World Bank: National Education Strategy for Iraq 2022-2031
- British Council: Next Generation Iraq
- Netherlands Institute of International Relations (Clingendael): A scramble for legitimacy: Iraq's political elites since the October 2019 protests
- Danish Refugee Council (DRC): Improving the Response to Internal Displacement in Iraq
- International Monetary Fund (IMF): "High Level Summary Technical Assistance Report" looking at the tax system in Iraq
- World Bank: Navigating social norms to empower Iraq's female workforce
- Carnegie Middle East Center: Iraq's Development Road: Geopolitics, Rentierism, and Border Connectivity
You can read the latest news on politics here.
Environment
- German Liaison Office for Commerce & Industry in Iraq (AHK Iraq): Water Scarcity in Iraq
- International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA): Iraq Energy Transition
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Pathways for Climate Investment in Iraq
- IMPACT: Climate Change and Agriculture in Dhi Qar
- Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC): Cracked Earth, shrinking harvest: Drought impact on displaced and returnee Iraqis
- Ministry of Environment, UNDP, USAID: National Strategy for the Protection and Improvement of the Environment in Iraq (2024-2030)
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO): Strengthening Climate Resilience of Vulnerable Agriculture Livelihoods in Iraq's Rural Communities (SRVALI)
- World Food Programme (WFP): Drought in Iraq
- International Organization for Migration (IOM): Climate Vulnerability Assessment in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
- UNICEF: Climate Landscape Analysis For Children And Young People In Iraq
- World Bank: Conflict Pollution Hotspots in Iraq: Land Remediation for Livelihoods Restoration
General Develpment; NGO Operations
- Iraqi Children Foundation (ICF): Annual Report 2025
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Operationalizing the Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus in Iraq
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Funding Facility for Stabilization - 2025 Quarter Three Report
- Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG): Higher Education and Scientific Research in Kurdistan Region, Data and Statistics, 2020 - 2024
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Iraq National Human Development Report 2025
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): Activity Report: ICRC in Iraq 2024
- United Nations (UN) in Iraq: Annual Results Report 2024
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Iraq: Annual Report for 2024
- Five One Labs: Annual Report for 2024
- Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-se): Clashing Narratives and Identities in Iraq's School Curriculum
- Ministry of Planning, UNDP: National Development Plan (NDP) 2024-2028
- International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC): Key Figures 2024 [EN/AR/KU]
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Draft country programme document for Iraq (2025-2029)
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Evaluation Plan, guiding the strategic direction of UNDP Iraq
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Independent Country Programme Evaluation
- International Organization for Migration's (IOM): Iraq Mission Annual Report 2023
- United Nations (UN) in Iraq: Annual Results Report 2023
- United Nations (UN) in Iraq: UN Common Country Analysis, Iraq, 2023
- International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC): Red Crescent Iraq Plan, 2024-25
- World Vision Iraq: Annual Report for 2022
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