Voice of America

July 27th, 2016 by MERI

“Negative developments in the relations between the KRG and IOCs can lead to major disinvestment that can hit current oil production and future projects on gas exploitation, and erode confidence of potential foreign investors in other sectors”

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Al Jazeera English

July 23rd, 2016 by MERI

“Without addressing these issues and providing a detailed plan for post-conflict reconstruction and employment, I fear that [ISIL] will either return or another radical entity will take its place, continuing the cycle of ethnosectarian violence in Iraq”

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Voice of America

July 19th, 2016 by MERI

A military coup, if successful, would have at best brought about new uncertainties, and at worse would have taken Turkey & KRI back to the old days.

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Deutsche Welle

May 9th, 2016 by MERI

“The Iraqi leader wants to reshuffle his cabinet but he has a weak base of power… his greatest rivals are now his fellow party members and former fellow campaigners”

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Al Jazeera English

April 3rd, 2016 by MERI

“The people who are asking for reforms as well as the people promising the reforms are not talking about the fundamental changes in the rule of law, policies and vision, and they neither show will and determination.”

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Middle East Eye

March 23rd, 2016 by MERI

“If Kirkuk was to become part of the KRG there is no doubt that locals would want Kirkuk to be treated in a different manner to Sulimani, Erbil, Dohuk and Halabja.”

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Reuters

March 9th, 2016 by MERI

“The current financial position of the KRG is unsustainable,” and it would be difficult for the KRG to carry out the necessary structural reforms unless it received external financial assistance to “stabilise its macro-economic environment.”

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Macleans

March 1st, 2016 by MERI

Kurdistan’s boom was dependent on a single factor: high oil prices. A failure to build a tax base or diversify the economy left it vulnerable. “But its weaknesses did not show for as long as there was a good flow of cash.”

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The Economist

February 29th, 2016 by MERI

“No party pushed for private-sector development because it was not in their interest,…It’s not a matter of firing people from the public sector, it’s making employment in the private one more attractive.”

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NRT

February 11th, 2016 by MERI

“[MERI] A leading organization based in the Kurdistan Region was ranked the top think tank in Iraq and among the top research institutions in the Middle East and North Africa”