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Another Iraq Drought Highlights Climate Change’s Threat to Food. By Khalid Al Ansary

Third year of drought forces Iraq to cut crop area in half Adverse weather sent global wheat prices near multiyear high A dried up river bed in the al-Huwaiza Marshes south of Baghdad in September., Photographer: Asaad Niazi/AFP/Getty Images A third straight year of drought is forcing Iraq to cut its crop area in half, another example of how extreme weather caused b

This article is more than 1 month old To meet climate targets and avoid economic collapse, countries such as Iraq need international support in the transition to clean energy Ali Allawi is deputy prime minister and finance minister of Iraq. Fatih Birol is executive director of the International Energy Agency In the Middle East and north Africa, global warming

Forward This research work was supported by the German Agency for International Cooperation GIZ (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit GmbH) and implemented in cooperation with the Iraqi Economists Network. The activity is part of the GIZ project Private Sector Development (PSD) which is being implanted in Iraq since 2018. The objective of this particular

Contents Executive summary 3 INTRODUCTION 7 2.1. FMIS and the World implementation experience 7 2.2. Iraq Financial Management Information System (IFMIS) Implementation Experience (post 2003 period). 9 2.3. Lesson Learned 11 Government Enterprise Resource Planning (GERP) 12 3.1. GERP High Level Overview 13 3.2. Ira

Washington DC, August 05, 2021—The World Bank Group has renewed its commitment to the continued support of Iraq, approving a new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) to form the basis of its 2022–2026 partnership with the country. The framework lays out the main development goals the World Bank Group aims to support in Iraq and proposes a series of strategic interventions to hel