By Shatha Khalil The question occupying central banks today is no longer simply: How much gold do we own? A more sensitive questio ...
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By Shatha Khalel The most serious problem facing Iraq’s public finances is not simply the rising level of debt, but the way that d ...
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By: Shatha Kalel Iraq’s current economic challenge is about far more than falling oil revenues, pressure on the dinar, or the shar ...
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By : Shatha kalel Iraq possesses some of the world’s largest oil reserves, and a substantial part of its financial capacity depend ...
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By Shatha Khalel The meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani on th ...
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By Shatha Khalel The significance of the Central Bank of Iraq’s latest statement lies not only in its assurance that the country h ...
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By: Shatha Kalel For years, the location of a country's gold reserves attracted little attention outside central banks and financi ...
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By : Shatha Kalel Bab el-Mandeb encapsulates, within its narrow geographical space, one of the most striking paradoxes of the glob ...
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For years, Iran’s economy appeared to possess an unusual capacity to absorb shocks. Sanctions expanded and tightened, the rial rep ...
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By : Shatha kalel The economic repercussions of the current Gulf War can no longer be measured solely by the number of facilities ...
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