Foreword The World Energy Outlook (WEO) is usually published in November. However, for the second year in a row, the International Energy Agency (IEA) is releasing our flagship report a month early, in October. We did this last year because it was an exceptional year defined by the Covid-19 crisis. This year is another exceptional year because of the COP26 Climate Change Con
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Introduction Greeting Dear Readers, The German Liaison Office for Industry and Commerce Facilitating Business in Iraq Iraq is a country with 40 million inhabitants, is blessed with resources, and has a long and rich history. But with a recent past determined by internal and external conflicts, Iraq poses challenges, and it offers opportunities. The young Iraqi populati
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Acknowledgments The Middle East and Central Asia Regional Economic Outlook (REO) Update is prepared each spring by the IMF’s Middle East and Central Asia Department (MCD). The analysis and projections contained in the MCD REO are integral elements of the department’s surveillance of economic developments and policies in member countries. It draws primarily on information gat
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Baghdad is most at risk from the global transition to net-zero by the middle of the century Iraq's deputy prime minister and finance minister Ali Allawi called on the international community to help rentier economies such as Iraq through funding and transfer of knowledge to combat climate change. AFP Iraq, Opec's second-largest producer, plans to inves
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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
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