Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Deputy Prime Minister pointed out that the Erbil–Baghdad agreement is only on the Iraq budget of 2015 and regarding the salary and budget of KRG for 2014, he mentioned that both Baghdad and Erbil Financial Watchdogs would meet in a near future make a decision about it, based on who owes the other and compensate them accordingly. On Wednesday
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On December 1 and 2, the federal Iraqi government and Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) conducted three rounds of negotiations in Baghdad over the sharing of oil revenues in the 2015 budget. The talks marked the culmination of three months of intensifying discussion between federal and Kurdish leaders, which followed more than a year of U.S.-supported discussions between the
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The recent Baghdad-Erbil oil deal has inspired optimism, but it avoids key details at the heart of big issues – control of territory and oil rights – on which neither side wants to compromise Leaders in Baghdad and Erbil are still far away from achieving a long-lasting resolution to Iraq's oil policy disputes, even though the tides of optimism have swelled in the past few week
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CAMBRIDGE – The price of oil has fallen more than 25% in the past five months, to less than $80 a barrel. If the price remains at this level, it will have important implications – some good, some bad – for many countries around the world. If it falls further, as seems likely, the geopolitical consequences on some oil-producing countries could be dramatic. The price of oil at a
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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Digital Content technology is transforming traditional knowledge industry structures, business models, and ways of doing things and is forming an important activity in its own right. Creating digital content strategies of increasing importance to national governments. Particularly in cases where cultural and linguistic heritage is highly valued, these prog
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