Abstract:
Finance and indebtedness remain major problems for most countries, especially developing countries it therefore requests to stand in front of them to reduce them and prevent their exacerbation, Global rating agencies are a reflection of the urgent need for investors and borrowers to identify factors affecting creditworthiness to bridge the existing information gap. Iraq was approved for the period 2004-2017 using a model (Toda Yamamota Causility) The desire to provide information on the level of risk before lending to the government or financial and banking institutions to assess the solvency and the desire to meet debts to meet current and future financial obligations in a timely manner, and the degree of rating is not an absolute fact, but expect to the current financial situation may err and may infect, However, creditworthiness indicators remain the most important criteria for assessing the likelihood of the borrower not repaying the loan amount. The researcher concluded that the most important variable affecting the sovereign creditworthiness of Iraq is debt service, especially in the short term On the other hand, the availability of liquidity gives great flexibility to Iraq in the payment of its obligations.
Machine summary:
Iraq was approved for the period 2004-2017 using a model (Toda Yamamota Causility) The desire to provide information on the level of risk before lending to the government or financial and banking institutions to assess the solvency and the desire to meet debts to meet current and future financial obligations in a timely manner, and the degree of rating is not an absolute fact, but expect to the current financial situation may err and may infect, However, creditworthiness indicators remain the most important criteria for assessing the likelihood of the borrower not repaying the loan amount.
The foreign exchange at the moment as the degree of classification provides investors with a roadmap for their investments in the country, especially in the process of trading bonds because it determines the scope of trading in global bond markets after the identification of risks, despite this, it is an acceptable stage commensurate with the economic reality of Iraq, which is expected to decline GDP growth to levels below 2% in 2017-2019 due to the negative effects of the government's actions in fiscal policy offset by weak domestic demand contrary to what the Ministry Iraqi planning of deceptive data in addition to the insistence of the Central Bank of Iraq to pursue a monetary policy biased to the foreign product.