Abstract
The phenomenon of poverty Keep to The economic systems since the beginning of The ancient civilizations according to The social divisions and yet. And each Period of time has concepts of poverty and there are reasons for the case of poverty as well, and these issues allow to put true indicators of poverty levels also. The study deals with in addition to the above to the issue of poverty in Iraq and according to the concepts, causes and indicators as a case study starts from the mid-seventies and yet, what the contents of these contracts uneconomical problems impacted negatively on The economic efficiency and caused grave damage to the two matters of The income distribution and redistribution of income and declining role of government in the economic expenditure with real deformations in the popular class pyramid that generated new levels of poverty cases..
