Pimpy
90% of Iraq's exports are in oil... Remember Iraq wants to be competitive in the trade market. Increases in their exchange rate would cause the items they are exporting to go up in cost. Since 90% of the exports is oil, this is different...
An increase in Iraq's exchange rate could lead to a stronger Iraqi dinar relative to other currencies. This would mean for each unit of oil sold, Iraq would receive more foreign currency.
Iraq's revenues from oil exports could potentially rise. So they can increase their exchange rate and what they could do to balance that increase in their exchange rate is either increase or decrease their oil production ...
We also know their foreign currency reserves have increased to $115 billion. Increasing the exchange rate would also increase their currency holding, which is good because they can us that to protect the Iraqi dinar. Increasing the exchange rate would benefit Iraq big time.
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