Public Sector Reforms in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Tackling the Socially Constructed Barriers to Change

Jay Joseph,Fahrettin Sümer

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-93420-4_7

Public Sector Reforms in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq: Tackling the Socially Constructed Barriers to Change

Jay Joseph, Fahrettin Sümer

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93420-4_7

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Publication Date: Sep 28, 2018

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Affiliation: American University of Beirut, American University of Iraq Sulaimani

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This chapter addresses the overinflated public sector in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq (KRI), which has placed increased pressure on an already struggling regional economy. As an oil-rich developing region, the KRI has characteristically fallen into the resource curse affecting many oil-rich nations. One such symptom of this curse is an overinflated and inefficient public sector, which now employs over half of all adult workers in the region, growing over time for both political purposes and out of fiscal mismanagement. The public sector of the KRI now stands as a fiscal burden on the Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) central budget, undermining the region’s ability to build a sustainable employment market for the future.

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