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THE JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC SCIENCES: THEORY AND PRACTICE, V.79, # 1, 2022, pp. 4-19

Accordingly, more than 85 percent of the total socio-economic impact of implanted
mines in Iraq is endured by the first seven ranked governorates. Basra governorate
has more than 55 percent of the total explosive ordnance impact in Iraq, as a whole,
followed by Babylon with about 18 percent and Anbar with a little less than 8
percent of the total impact.

Figure: -2-, depicts the percentage distribution of the total socio-economic and
infrastructural impact of the explosive ordnance by the different governorates in Iraq.

Fig -2-: Percentage of total Impact by Governorate

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At this conjuncture, it is worth mentioning that the highest sectors which have
negatively impacted, in percentage points, in the four highly affected governorates, i.e.
Basra, Babylon, Anbar, and Diyala, were the road, oil fields, water and water resources,
agriculture, railroads, other infrastructure (ports, etc.), and non-agriculture
(manufacturing industry and related activities) sector. Accordingly, these implanted
mines’ direct and indirect impact has hit quite hard the substantive sectors which are the
pillars for resources utilization, trade, socio-economic development, and growth of the
nation, and has contributed, to and exacerbated the slowing of the development
processes, increasing unemployment, restricting significantly commodities and human
mobilities, and increasing the overall poverty in the country.

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