## Iraq: Use of Fund Resources—Request for Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance

_IMF Staff Country Reports, October 18, 2004_

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## Bibliographic details
- Published: October 18, 2004
- Series: IMF Staff Country Reports
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451819076.002

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### Overview
- Reviews Iraq’s Request for Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance (EPCA).
- Paper date: October 18, 2004.
- Core objective: assess the EPCA-supported program designed to assist post-conflict reconstruction and stabilization.

### Program goals
- Improve the general welfare of the Iraqi people.
- Address Iraq’s external debt problem.

### Policy framework and pillars
- Prudent fiscal policy that aims to limit spending to available government revenues and external resources.
- Use of the exchange rate to anchor inflation expectations.
- Planning and undertaking of key structural reforms to transform Iraq into a market economy.

### Subjects and keywords
- Subjects: Commodities, Emergency assistance, Expenditure, External debt, Foreign aid, International trade, Oil, Oil exports.
- Keywords: central bank, continuing cooperation, CR, deep appreciation, economic program, economy, Emergency assistance, Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance, Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance to Iraq, fiscal policy, Iraq, Iraq's economy, ISCR, Middle East, Oil, Oil exports, reform agenda, regime.

### Key publication identifiers
- Pages: 74
- Volume: 2004
- Issue: 325
- Series: Country Report No. 2004/325
- Stock No: 1IRQEA0012004
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451819076.002
- ISBN: 9781451819076
- ISSN: 1934-7685

*International Monetary Fund. "Iraq: Use of Fund Resources—Request for Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance", IMF Staff Country Reports 2004, 325 (2004), accessed 9/14/2026, https://doi.org/10.5089/9781451819076.002*

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