Abstract

FDI flows considered one of the most important sources of external funding for developing countries in the nineties of the twentieth century, where it is reliable in financing the gap between investment and domestic savings, so different countries of the world trying to attract more foreign direct investment because of its positive returns on economic growth process.
The developing countries targeting, including Iraq, encourage investment to achieve many of the economic and social objectives, but that the lack of integration of foreign direct investment in the framework of development Strategy of the state, will lead - only- that maximizes FDI benefits, regardless of whether check development goals of the host country, what the impact of FDI on the Iraqi industrial sector growth?.
To answer this problem we decided to split the research into three sections, the first dealing with the theory of foreign direct investment, while the second dealt with the reality of the industrial sector in Iraq, while the third section dealt with the measurement of the impact of FDI on the industrial sector growth rates in Iraq, and the most important conclusions that came out of research is the lack of a significant relationship between the variables of the research.