| Description | Folder of presscuttings, faxed notes and other papers relating to economic and industrial development during and after the Second Gulf War, with topics covered including postwar shortages of food, medicine and raw materials, the 1991 budget, reports suggesting US economic sanctions were aimed at sparking a coup against Saddam, the effects of the embargo and sanctions on private industrial production and consequent unemployment, the revival of cotton and wool production, a document outlining Iraq's economic evidence presented to the UN to support a request for a five-year moratorium on war reparations, and Ridha Mohammed's Financial Times article 'Saddam's Iraq: a squandered inheritance |