https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/iraq
The WBG will develop a two-year Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Iraq. The CPF aims to offer solutions to support Iraq’s transition to a more resilient and inclusive economy and will also support engagement to help de-risk the private sector, mobilize finance for development, and create markets through innovative financing tools and public-private partnerships.
The Kurdistan Region of the Republic of Iraq (KRI) is a constitutionally recognized semiautonomous region in northern Iraq with a population of 5.1 million (2012 estimate). Its government (the KRG), based in Erbil, has the right, under the Iraqi constitution of 2005, to exercise legislative ...
New Report: An estimated 4.4 million people in host communities in Jordan, Lebanon and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), in addition to 1 million Syrian refugees and 180,000 Iraqi IDPs have been pushed into poverty due to COVID-19 December 17, 2020: The impact of COVID-19 on poverty levels among Syrian refugees and host communities in Jordan, Lebanon and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI ...
https://www.worldbank.org/en/country/iraq/publication/ecd2015
If we observe a child who lives in a rural, south/central area of Iraq, in the poorest 20% of households, with uneducated parents (a “least advantaged” child) and compare that child to one who has parents with higher education, is from the richest 20% of households, and lives in urban Kurdistan (a “most advantaged” child), we find they ...
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2015/02/12/kurdistan-region-iraq-stabilize-economy
ERBIL, February 12, 2015 – The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) is facing an economic and humanitarian crisis as a result of the influx of Syrian refugees (starting in early 2012) and more recently the Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) in 2014. According to a newly completed KRG – World Bank report, economic growth contracted 5 percentage points in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI ...
https://blogs.worldbank.org/psd/kurdistan-regional-government-toward-inclusion-women-economy
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has been fighting and striving for stability for decades, facing many hurdles and political challenges for its very survival. KRG, which represents the Kurdistan region in northern Iraq, has notched up some successes since it achieved full autonomy in 2005.
ERBIL, February 24, 2015 – The World Bank Group and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG)-Iraq, launched today a social protection program of support to promote equity in living standards and reduce vulnerability.The program is aligned with the government’s efforts to develop a comprehensive social protection system and contributes to the goals of KRGs Vision 2020 of “freedom, health ...