“If anything we’re worse than when we started,” Rashid Mansour, a hairdresser from west Baghdad, told Arab News. The private sector needs time to develop.”IN NUMBERS * 39.3m Population of Iraq. “We have a big unemployment issue in the country,” Baghdad resident Tarek Abu Abdallah, 50, told Arab News. The economic situation has everyone exhausted.”The obstacles to building a functioning private sector are well understood by senior officials. “The addiction to the oil revenue has grown dangerous over the years,” he told Arab News.

Source: Libya Today January 24, 2022 23:50 UTC