Author: REPUBLIC OF IRAQ - Ministry of Planning.
Title: Prices statistics for second half of 1970. Retail and wholesale.Iraq, Central Statistical Organization, [1970?]. Folio (28.5 x 21 cm). With multiple graphs on 8 leaves, most of them in the text. The main price-information is arranged in tables, all tables and other introductory information are printed on 1 side of the leaves (from right to left on the recto side of the leaves, excluding the information in English which has from that perspective been printed on the verso side of the leaves). Original printed publisher's wrappers.
Description: (The majority of the work reads from right to left, thus:) [5], 83, VI-I, [4] ll.A statistical overview of the changes in wholesale and retail prices of (among other things) agricultural, animal, electronic, and textile products in Iraq during the second half of 1970. The elaborate information, gathered and presented in the present work by the index numbers & prices department of the central statistical organization of the ministry of planning of the Republic of Iraq, has mostly been arranged in tables, supplemented with some graphs. The information is organised by general geographical districts in the north, middle, and south of the country and assessing the prices of products on markets in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, separately as its own, densely populated district. The present work was published as a supplement to the original bulletin on prices for the first half of 1970, in an effort to bridge the gap in data supply as the Index numbers & Prices department tried to change the publishing frequency from once or twice a year, to quarterly and eventually to monthly statements on the changing prices. The information is presented both in Arabic and in English, for the purpose of providing a wider range of people and organisations with the information. The Arabic information, of course, reads from right to left and the tables with the information in both languages are oriented in the same way, and the English list of contents and introductory information can be found at the back of the work, to be read from left to right. Iraq experienced considerable economic development during the second half of the 20th century. By 1980, its complex, central, state-planned economy had become the second largest economy in the Arab world after Saudi Arabia. To achieve such development, people had to keep a close eye on changing wholesale and retail prices, in order to keep changes in inflation and purchasing power in check.Wrapper worn and stained, with a blue stamp on the wrapper with the title in Arabic (front or back wrapper?), some staining to the first 4-5 leaves at both (English and Arabic) ends of the work, otherwise internally good and clean.

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