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Reports that an Economic and Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) of the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI) provides a technical assessment of the impact of the recent regional crises and stabilization needs that could inform the dialogue between the regional and central governments as well as provide input for international efforts to address socioeconomic issues.
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This will help to maximize the benefits of the guide in the KRG. In this context, the official use of the guide to legislative drafting should become mandatory. This could be achieved either through making the guide an integral part of a new law on legislative drafting to be passed by the parliament in the KRG under penalty of 0ity of any draft ...
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IFC Investment to Increase Access to Health Care Services in Kurdistan Region of Iraq. Baghdad, Iraq, March 24, 2020 —IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is investing over $26 million in a new 161-bed hospital in Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. The facility will increase the availability of quality healthcare services and help ...
With IFC’s investment, MGES will add 500 megawatts of capacity to a 1,000-megawatt power plant in Kurdistan. This will provide power to 3 million people whose basic needs and comforts rely on electricity—allowing them to cook food, heat living spaces, and power up medical facilities. Our funds will also help complete a new power plant near ...
Kurdistan, are higher; while there is little difference for the 14 governorates comprising the rest of Iraq. In addition, the choice of national or regional pov-erty lines does not alter the trends in poverty at the national, regional or governorate level; and for the parts of the country significant changes in poverty
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Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, October 17, 2016 —IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, signed an agreement with Erbil-based NGO the Rwanga Foundation today to help it provide business training to host communities and refugees in Iraq, part of efforts to bolster the country’s private sector amid current challenges.
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Erbil, Kurdistan Region of Iraq, April 20, 2015 —IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is investing up to $18 million in Saudi dairy company Al Safi Danone’s Iraq-based subsidiary to expand its operations in order to improve domestic food security, boost Iraq’s non-oil sector, and reduce its reliance on imported dairy products.
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 ...
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Al Ahram is a member of UB Holding, which is a Kurdistan Region of Iraq-based industrial conglomerate. It specializes in the manufacturing and sales of bottled water and beverages. Ahram’s two production plants, located in Zakho and Suleymaniyah, are designed and built according to international standards, and equipped with the latest ...
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The Iraq Household Socio-Economic Survey conducted in 2006-2007 (IHSES 2007), was Iraq's first nationwide income and expenditure survey since 1988. Based on the model of the Living Standards Measurement Surveys, it covered more than 18,000 households, collected detailed data on all aspects of household income and expenditure and generated information on a wide variety of socio-economic indicators.