Iraqi Kurdistan faces a deepening economic crisis as unpaid wages pile up
- Written by Bamo Nouri, Honorary Research Fellow, City St George's, University of London
A man waves the Kurdistan flag in northern Iraq.Felix Friebe / ShutterstockPublic sector workers in Iraqi Kurdistan, a semi-autonomous region of northern Iraq, have endured irregular and delayed salary payments for more than a decade. Many of these people are owed staggering amounts of money – US$50,000 (£38,700) on average, and as...







