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Reconstruction in Iraq: How Much is Needed, How Can it be Measured?

BY DAVID DAVIS The coalition intervention in Iraq of the spring of 2003 was carried out to depose a cruel and heinous dictator, Saddam Hussein. There has been much press and conjecture about other reasons for the intervention. What is little debated however, is that the Iraq that the coalition found was in great need. [...]

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Posted by on November 4th, 2005 No Comments

Microfinance in Iraq

BY SAMEEKSHA DESAI Microfinance, the provision of financial services to people who typically cannot access such services (for example, providing credit to the poor) creates and builds upon the potential to regenerate and reinvest initial funds. However promising its applications and benefits may be, implementing microfinance in Iraq’s post conflict context presents major challenges to [...]

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Posted by on November 10th, 2004 No Comments

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