Introduction[1] Present-day division of Iraq into, more or less, three seemingly separate parts (Kurdistan plus Kirkuk, Baghdad-to-Basra, and the ‘Upper Middle’; Nenawa, Salahuldin, Diala, and Anbar) hides long-enduring economic/financial interdependence. The financial interdependence shows in the fact that oil-producing governorates have been increasingly ‘financing’ (through the central budget) the deficit between spending and locally generated … Continue reading Disparities in Regional Incomes and Spending: Spatial economic interdependence in Iraq. By Ali Merza