Methodology for evaluating investment activity and the attractiveness of agricultural investment in Iraq
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[rtl]Dr. Aqil Al-Mohammadawi [/rtl]
[rtl]The process of economic regulation of the state for investment activity is of strategic importance and priority, and it is necessary to develop measures to improve it according to the targeted economic priority for sustainable economic growth in the agricultural sector in market conditions based on the use of targeted approaches in integrated programs that are consistent with the economic renaissance orientations of the government’s executive economic and service programs and improving infrastructure.[/rtl]
[rtl]Often, the scientific literature provides many interpretations of the concept of methodology, and methodology is interpreted in two senses: as a system of methods and as a theory of the method of study or a method of working methods. [/rtl]
[rtl]But this previously widely held point of view is beginning to be challenged. For example, V. Kutsenko disagrees with the interpretation of methodology as a doctrine of methods and a system of methods and defines it as a system of principles for the formation and practical application of methods of knowledge and transformation of reality. If the methodological approach determines the strategic guidelines of future research, then methodological generalization involves either enriching the theoretical base of science in a particular branch of knowledge, or concentrated material for decision-making in the practice of production or management and is already the result of the completed study. [/rtl]
[rtl]In our opinion, the methodological approach is to determine the principles of selection of relevant investment instruments, as well as to consider the proposed sectoral product sub-complexes of the agro-industrial complex as an effective and sustainable investment model as more viable or more attractive projects for effective and sustainable investment.[/rtl]
[rtl]It is advisable to present the assessment of investment attractiveness of the food sub-complex of the agro-industrial complex in groups of indicators characterizing the most important components of the investment mechanism. These blocks are:[/rtl]
[rtl]- Evaluation of the production potential of the food sub-complex of the agro-industrial complex;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Status of the sub-complex of the industry product;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Developing the marketing capabilities of the products of the industrial complex of the agricultural industrial complex.[/rtl]
[rtl]Improving investment activities in agriculture should meet the following requirements:[/rtl]
[rtl]- Ensuring sustainable development, increasing the efficiency of agricultural production, and achieving food security for the country;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Increase the attractiveness of investment in the industry for external investors;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Strengthening government intervention in regulating agriculture.[/rtl]
[rtl]Improving investment activities in agriculture should meet the following requirements:[/rtl]
[rtl]- Ensuring sustainable development, increasing the efficiency of agricultural production, and achieving food security for the country;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Increase the attractiveness of investment in the industry for external investors;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Strengthening government intervention in regulating agriculture and the food industry and organizing effective partnership by targeting the growth of foreign production when achieving the optimal degree of interaction in this process with the free market;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Creating incentives for introducing scientific and technological progress, and reducing production costs;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Ensure relatively equal starting opportunities for expanding production for all agricultural producers;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Forming a marketing strategy for agricultural production based on a mixed economy;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Stimulating rational allocation and specialization in agricultural production;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Strengthening environmental protection and environmental protection in the field of agriculture;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Creating stable conditions between industries in the agricultural sector by overcoming the disparity in prices of industrial and agricultural products.[/rtl]
[rtl]One specific form of implementation of these requirements is the improvement of the economic mechanism in agriculture, which should be implemented on the basis of the following principles:[/rtl]
[rtl]- construction of individual elements of the economic mechanism on a unified methodological (cost) basis;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Using a programmatic approach aimed at improving the economic mechanism in order to ensure its sustainable operation and the performance of its inherent functions through each economic lever;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Adopting an integrated approach when implementing measures to improve the economic mechanism in order to ensure its close interaction in the process of economic regulation of investment activities in agriculture.[/rtl]
[rtl]At the same time, the implementation of the targeted approach of the program assumes the need to use a system of forecasting and planning of agricultural production in market conditions, the use of an integrated approach - the optimal interaction of prices, taxes, credit and other factors of the reproductive process in the agricultural sector.[/rtl]
[rtl]Objectivity and reliability in evaluating the effectiveness of investment projects[/rtl]
[rtl]In the agricultural sector it is presented on the basis of: determining the costs and benefits of the project; measuring the costs and benefits; determining the duration of the project life cycle; choosing the discount rate; determining the price level; justifying the criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the project.[/rtl]
[rtl]Investments in their economic movement pass through three stages of circulation and take the appropriate functional forms. At each stage, production and circulation processes occur simultaneously, the value of capital increases, forms of ownership change, and so on. [/rtl]
[rtl]In the first stage of circulation, the monetary form of capital value turns into work on creating or rebuilding the organization, and in the form of capital value - into the main means of production. [/rtl]
[rtl]At the second stage of turnover, the production consumption of created (modern) production facilities (fixed assets) and the formation of finished products is carried out, which accumulate a value that is already greater than the cost of consumed fixed and working assets (at the same time, the process of repayment of investments in capital costs is carried out). [/rtl]
[rtl]At the third stage of the turnover, products are sold, and investment investments are returned from the commodity form to their original monetary form. At the same time, the value continues to increase, because the work of workers in selling products creates new value. Hence, at all stages of investment turnover, a change in the forms of value and the creation of new value occurs.[/rtl]
[rtl]It seems important to use the investment turnover index in economic research and practice and practical applicability. The methodology is important to develop and implement an indicator that expresses the full investment turnover rate in the long term. This indicator is the investment turnover index, which is calculated by the ratio of the operating volume of fixed production assets and the corresponding investments.[/rtl]
[rtl]As a general rule, investment abroad is evaluated in relation to the macroeconomic sphere. [/rtl]
[rtl]In some countries, such as Japan, descriptive investment methods prevail.[/rtl]
[rtl]Attractiveness without any quantitative assessment. However, the most common studies are those in which economic indicators are expressed in numerical values. In the United States, a method is used that takes into account various factors of investment attractiveness, on the basis of which the "Annual Statistical Map" is published for all states. It includes four general indicators of the investment climate: economic efficiency of investments, business feasibility, development potential of the territory, and components of tax policy.[/rtl]
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[rtl]Dr. Aqil Al-Mohammadawi [/rtl]
[rtl]The process of economic regulation of the state for investment activity is of strategic importance and priority, and it is necessary to develop measures to improve it according to the targeted economic priority for sustainable economic growth in the agricultural sector in market conditions based on the use of targeted approaches in integrated programs that are consistent with the economic renaissance orientations of the government’s executive economic and service programs and improving infrastructure.[/rtl]
[rtl]Often, the scientific literature provides many interpretations of the concept of methodology, and methodology is interpreted in two senses: as a system of methods and as a theory of the method of study or a method of working methods. [/rtl]
[rtl]But this previously widely held point of view is beginning to be challenged. For example, V. Kutsenko disagrees with the interpretation of methodology as a doctrine of methods and a system of methods and defines it as a system of principles for the formation and practical application of methods of knowledge and transformation of reality. If the methodological approach determines the strategic guidelines of future research, then methodological generalization involves either enriching the theoretical base of science in a particular branch of knowledge, or concentrated material for decision-making in the practice of production or management and is already the result of the completed study. [/rtl]
[rtl]In our opinion, the methodological approach is to determine the principles of selection of relevant investment instruments, as well as to consider the proposed sectoral product sub-complexes of the agro-industrial complex as an effective and sustainable investment model as more viable or more attractive projects for effective and sustainable investment.[/rtl]
[rtl]It is advisable to present the assessment of investment attractiveness of the food sub-complex of the agro-industrial complex in groups of indicators characterizing the most important components of the investment mechanism. These blocks are:[/rtl]
[rtl]- Evaluation of the production potential of the food sub-complex of the agro-industrial complex;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Status of the sub-complex of the industry product;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Developing the marketing capabilities of the products of the industrial complex of the agricultural industrial complex.[/rtl]
[rtl]Improving investment activities in agriculture should meet the following requirements:[/rtl]
[rtl]- Ensuring sustainable development, increasing the efficiency of agricultural production, and achieving food security for the country;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Increase the attractiveness of investment in the industry for external investors;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Strengthening government intervention in regulating agriculture.[/rtl]
[rtl]Improving investment activities in agriculture should meet the following requirements:[/rtl]
[rtl]- Ensuring sustainable development, increasing the efficiency of agricultural production, and achieving food security for the country;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Increase the attractiveness of investment in the industry for external investors;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Strengthening government intervention in regulating agriculture and the food industry and organizing effective partnership by targeting the growth of foreign production when achieving the optimal degree of interaction in this process with the free market;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Creating incentives for introducing scientific and technological progress, and reducing production costs;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Ensure relatively equal starting opportunities for expanding production for all agricultural producers;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Forming a marketing strategy for agricultural production based on a mixed economy;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Stimulating rational allocation and specialization in agricultural production;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Strengthening environmental protection and environmental protection in the field of agriculture;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Creating stable conditions between industries in the agricultural sector by overcoming the disparity in prices of industrial and agricultural products.[/rtl]
[rtl]One specific form of implementation of these requirements is the improvement of the economic mechanism in agriculture, which should be implemented on the basis of the following principles:[/rtl]
[rtl]- construction of individual elements of the economic mechanism on a unified methodological (cost) basis;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Using a programmatic approach aimed at improving the economic mechanism in order to ensure its sustainable operation and the performance of its inherent functions through each economic lever;[/rtl]
[rtl]- Adopting an integrated approach when implementing measures to improve the economic mechanism in order to ensure its close interaction in the process of economic regulation of investment activities in agriculture.[/rtl]
[rtl]At the same time, the implementation of the targeted approach of the program assumes the need to use a system of forecasting and planning of agricultural production in market conditions, the use of an integrated approach - the optimal interaction of prices, taxes, credit and other factors of the reproductive process in the agricultural sector.[/rtl]
[rtl]Objectivity and reliability in evaluating the effectiveness of investment projects[/rtl]
[rtl]In the agricultural sector it is presented on the basis of: determining the costs and benefits of the project; measuring the costs and benefits; determining the duration of the project life cycle; choosing the discount rate; determining the price level; justifying the criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the project.[/rtl]
[rtl]Investments in their economic movement pass through three stages of circulation and take the appropriate functional forms. At each stage, production and circulation processes occur simultaneously, the value of capital increases, forms of ownership change, and so on. [/rtl]
[rtl]In the first stage of circulation, the monetary form of capital value turns into work on creating or rebuilding the organization, and in the form of capital value - into the main means of production. [/rtl]
[rtl]At the second stage of turnover, the production consumption of created (modern) production facilities (fixed assets) and the formation of finished products is carried out, which accumulate a value that is already greater than the cost of consumed fixed and working assets (at the same time, the process of repayment of investments in capital costs is carried out). [/rtl]
[rtl]At the third stage of the turnover, products are sold, and investment investments are returned from the commodity form to their original monetary form. At the same time, the value continues to increase, because the work of workers in selling products creates new value. Hence, at all stages of investment turnover, a change in the forms of value and the creation of new value occurs.[/rtl]
[rtl]It seems important to use the investment turnover index in economic research and practice and practical applicability. The methodology is important to develop and implement an indicator that expresses the full investment turnover rate in the long term. This indicator is the investment turnover index, which is calculated by the ratio of the operating volume of fixed production assets and the corresponding investments.[/rtl]
[rtl]As a general rule, investment abroad is evaluated in relation to the macroeconomic sphere. [/rtl]
[rtl]In some countries, such as Japan, descriptive investment methods prevail.[/rtl]
[rtl]Attractiveness without any quantitative assessment. However, the most common studies are those in which economic indicators are expressed in numerical values. In the United States, a method is used that takes into account various factors of investment attractiveness, on the basis of which the "Annual Statistical Map" is published for all states. It includes four general indicators of the investment climate: economic efficiency of investments, business feasibility, development potential of the territory, and components of tax policy.[/rtl]
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