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 ...
Iraq, and Kurdistan in particular, is home to a large number of refugees. A total of 252,983 Syrian refugees, 44,486 refugees from other countries and 47,515 stateless refugees are currently living there.These refugees are supported by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, alongside other organisations, to ensure that their most basic needs are met.
新浪微博. Baghdad, September 21, 2021 – A new plan to remove constraints and create more economic opportunities for women was launched today by the government of Iraq, with support from the World Bank Group. The Women’s Economic Empowerment Plan for 2021-2022 outlines the government’s priorities in line with its reform program.
https://www.worldbank.org/en/news/press-release/2020/06/17/fallout-of-war-in-syria
The conflict also drove up poverty rates by 6.0 pp in Iraq, 3.9 pp in Jordan, and 7.1 pp in Lebanon, while simultaneously precipitating the largest refugee crisis since World War II. At the peak, refugees exceeded a quarter of the local populations in Jordan, Lebanon, and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the highest refugee concentration in the world.
https://blogs.worldbank.org/arabvoices/what-gets-their-way-why-so-few-women-work-iraq-jordan-lebanon
For instance, data for Jordan and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq show that the acceptance to women’s work outside the home decreases considerably once a woman is married. Finally, “Having a child” implies additional barriers related to access and availability of quality childcare services which may lead women to withdraw from the labor ...
In Iraq we met with, of course, Prime Minister al-Abadi, and we also went to Kurdistan to meet with the KRG, and what we found was that there's still quite a bit of instability. You know, Jordan and Lebanon continue to reel from the influx of refugees. In Iraq, what we are trying to do is to make sure that, for example, some of the regions that ...
In KRG, the Kurdistan Contractors Union has collaborated with the Ministry of Planning to execute 10 workshops across four cities, targeting 250 SMEs. In Egypt, the General Authority for Government Services has partnered with a training institute to execute 18 workshops in 16 different cities, employing impressive reach and scope to share ...