Cowboy Drugstore : Traces of a kleptocrat from Iraq to Delaware to Miami. By Zacck Kopplin * Masrour Barzani, Iraqi Kurdistan prime minister and owner of a Miami building housing a CVS A few blocks from the water, in the heart of Miami’s glitzy South Beach, is a drugstore not like the others. Tourists buying sunscreen and straw hats from the CVS on
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Abstract This paper aims, on the one hand, to investigate the impact of corruption on economic diversification in 11 oil-abundant Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries and three successful diversifiers (Canada, Norway, and Malaysia) over the period 1996-2019. This is done using the Arellano-Bond difference Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) estimator that is effective
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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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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
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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
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