Abstract
The research is concerned with studying economic exposure and explaining its impact on competitiveness in the Iraqi economy, based on the principle that every country that suffers from economic exposure will have a dependent economy. Economic dependency, in its general sense, means the subordination of a backward national economy to an advanced national economy, whether it is the economy of a specific country. Or the economy of a specific region, and this submission or dependency is inclusive of all the variables that occur in the developed country or the decisions issued by it, as a result of the financial, commercial, and technical control that characterises the advanced economy. That is, it is a renewable, never-ending state in which countries, economies, and agents depend. Economists affect each other and a variety of different economic and non-economic factors for economic and non-economic reasons as well. Economic dependency is one of the most dangerous things that the state faces, as the economy of that country is exposed to violent economic shocks that weaken the structure of the economy and trade in it and then make it retreat from its obligations to the state and, the economy begins. With the collapse after a series of collapses in the value of the currency and the rise in prices in the markets, as a result of a change in economic policies in another country, or the exposure of that country to those changes as a result of a crisis or a previously unplanned situation, which affects the dependent country negatively and significantly. Therefore, we find that specialists are trying to Economic exposure is limited to its limits so that its negative effects are not greater than the capacity of that exposed economy that belongs to another country, which is what the research sought and reached through the conclusions and recommendations it reached
