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$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

March 21, 2013

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?

March 21, 2013

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

February 28, 2013

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

January 13, 2013

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

January 8, 2013

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

January 7, 2013

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

January 6, 2013

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 Middle East

January 6, 2013

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.