Iraq’s People and Resources

Iraq’s People and Resources

Doris Goodrich Adams

University of California

The basis of this study is a doctoral thesis, “Population Trends in Relation to the Economic Development of Iraq,” submitted in July, 1955, in the Department of Economics of the University of California, Berkeley. The research was made possible by a thirty-one-month fellowship from the Board on Overseas Training and Research of the Ford Foundation. The first year of the fellowship was spent in research and Arabic studies in Washington, D.C., and the remainder of the fellowship period, from September, 1953, to March, 1955, in travel and study in Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries. It must be noted that the Ford Foundation is not the author, owner, publisher, or proprietor of this work and is not to be understood as approving by virtue of its grant any of the statements made or views expressed herein.
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