Kurdistan Politics - MarcoPolis Your local business media with a global reach Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:30:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 $25 Billion Spent on Development of Erbil Governorate Between 2004-2012 /25-billion-spent-on-development-of-erbil-governorate-between-2004-2012.htm Fri, 03 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 /25-billion-spent-on-development-of-erbil-governorate-between-2004-2012.htm $25 billion had been spent on the development of the Erbil governorate in between 2004 and 2012, resulting in profound changes in different sectors, including construction and infrastructure, which predisposed Erbil to become an important trade center not only for Iraqi Kurdistan but for all of Iraq; thus becoming, for some, the economic capital of Iraq. Accommodating 37 nationalities and 27 consulates, Erbil boasts with an unemployment rate of about 5% and was named the tourism capital of 2014.

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]]> Iraqi Kurdistan: Good Relations at Top of KRG Foreign Policy List /iraqi-kurdistan-good-relations-at-top-of-krg-foreign-policy-list.htm Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:00:35 +0000 /iraqi-kurdistan-good-relations-at-top-of-krg-foreign-policy-list.htm Kurdish foreign relations are in a process of quick evolution as former foes become development partners, such as with Turkey and Iran, where there have been respective degrees of rapprochement have been reached.
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]]> Autonomous Kurdistan: Driving Toward Independence? /autonomous-kurdistan-driving-toward-independence.htm Thu, 21 Mar 2013 15:21:39 +0000 /autonomous-kurdistan-driving-toward-independence.htm While the strong irredentist urge of the Kurdish people over the centuries has always been to have a state to call their own, the one territory to have nearly achieved this -- the Autonomous Kurdistan Region -- part of northern federal Iraq, is walking a tightrope on actually pressing for full statehood in the near term.
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]]> Political Risk and Stability in Iraq /political-risk-and-stability-in-iraq.htm Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:15:49 +0000 /political-risk-and-stability-in-iraq.htm Ìý
Mark DeWeaver, Co-founder of Quantrarian Capital Management - a DC-based emerging markets hedge fund - and author of Animal Spirits with Chinese Characteristics: Investment Booms and Busts in the World's Emerging Economic Giant, discusses the stability issues in Iraq.

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]]> An Interview with Nechirvan Barzani: The Priority is to Achieve Self-Sufficiency within the new Federal Iraq /an-interview-with-nechirvan-barzani-the-priority-is-to-achieve-self-sufficiency-within-the-new-federal-iraq.htm Sun, 13 Jan 2013 13:34:18 +0000 /an-interview-with-nechirvan-barzani-the-priority-is-to-achieve-self-sufficiency-within-the-new-federal-iraq.htm The government of Kurdistan Region is doing everything necessary to achieve self-sufficiency of the Region within the new federal Iraq. Kurdistan Region is well-known for its investment-friendly law thanks to which the Investment Board of Kurdistan has been so far able to attract more than $22 billion of investments since 2006. Mr. Barzani also stresses the importance of understanding and recognition of the difficulties the Region had to overcome in the past.

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]]> Kirkuk: Kurdistan’s Statehood Aspirations and Oil /kirkuk-kurdistans-statehood-aspirations-and-oil.htm Tue, 08 Jan 2013 22:11:40 +0000 /kirkuk-kurdistans-statehood-aspirations-and-oil.htm For some time the Northern Iraq city and province of Kirkuk has been the political, security and economic fault line between the increasingly autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government, and federal Iraq.
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]]> Kurdistan Oil & Gas: Oil Sector Growing Amid Political Wrangling /kurdistan-oil-a-gas-oil-sector-growing-amid-political-wrangling.htm Mon, 07 Jan 2013 00:00:00 +0000 /kurdistan-oil-a-gas-oil-sector-growing-amid-political-wrangling.htm Driving the region's economy is Kurdistan's gas and oil reserves, estimated respectively at 100-200 trillion cubic feet and 45 billion barrels, with possibly another 25 billion potential barrels in unproven reserve.
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]]> Political Risk and Investments in Kurdistan /political-risk-and-investments-in-kurdistan.htm Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:12:21 +0000 /political-risk-and-investments-in-kurdistan.htm Ìý
Chairman of the Kurdistan Board of Investment Herish Muharam explains the political, regional and international risks facing Kurdistan and their impact on the foreign direct investments.

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]]> Kurdistan’s Investment Law: One of the Best Investment Laws in the ²©ÓãÌåÓýÓéÀÖƽ̨ East /kurdistans-investment-law-one-of-the-best-investment-laws-in-the-middle-east.htm Sun, 06 Jan 2013 11:09:02 +0000 /kurdistans-investment-law-one-of-the-best-investment-laws-in-the-middle-east.htm Ìý
Chairman of the Kurdistan Board of Investment Herish Muharam explains the intricacies of the progressive investment law Kurdistan has adopted in 2006 and its amendments that are due in 2013.

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