Department of Economics University of Vermont Burlington , VT . 05405 Prepared for UNU/WIDER Project on The Political Economy of Humanitarian Emergencies. First Project Meeting , 6 -8 October 1996. Most of the discourse on Iraq since the formal ending of the Gulf War in February 27, 1991 tended to focus on the economic embargo which the United Nations Security Counc
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Third World Quarterly Iraq: Economic Consequences of the 1991 Gulf War and Future Outlook Author(s): Abbas Alnasrawi Source: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 13, No. 2 (1992), pp. 335-352 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3992780 Accessed: 22-05-2015 09:39 UTC On 2 August 1990 Iraq invaded Kuwait. This was
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Source: Third World Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Jul., 1986), pp. 869-895 Published by: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3991927 Accessed: 27-05-2015 18:07 UTC The Iraq-Iran war which has been going on for nearly six years will perhaps go down in history as one of the costliest conflicts in this century. It is estimated that
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Executive Summary Objectives In an effort to gain a preliminary understanding of the current labor market conditions in East Mosul in the aftermath of the military operation to retake the city from ISIS control, this labor market assessment seeks to provide insights into the market context for the purposes of humanitarian and early recovery response. The goals of the labor
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Implications for Policies to Increase Private-Sector Employment by Howard J. Shatz, Louay Constant, Jill E. Luoto, Alexandria Smith, Shmuel Abramzon Research Questions How can the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) improve the private-sector labor market in the Kurdistan Region — Iraq (KRI)? What inputs will be needed to improve KRG labor-market policy and the matches
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