Foreign workers (African and Asian) immigrants in Iraqi
Kurdistan
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Foreign workers (African and Asian)
immigrants in Iraqi Kurdistan 3.8.2007
August 3, 2007
Erbil-Heweler, Kurdistan region (Iraq), --
Southern Kurdistan or Kurdistan region (Iraq) has
been rebuild since 1992, from a war region to a
wealthy region in Iraq which welcomes foreign
workers and business men to invest and live.
Imagine that a occupied country with no borders what
so ever has since 1999 built around 1000 km of new
roads/highways, 600 km repaired and resurfaced, 15
new bridges constructed with around 26% of
Kurdistans budget spent on construction and
repairing with a estimated number of 45 billion
barrels of oil reserves which is making it the 6th
in the world with the the largest amount of oil (!).
The same year (-99) around 10,5 million dollars were
spent buying surplus grain from local farmers and 60
new schools were built and 503 were renovated and
refurbished.
Today, 35 new villages have been provided with
electricity and 700 other villages have been
repaired.
50 foreign companies since 2005 have registered in
Erbil-Hewler as international enterprises and many
of them is foreign, mainly Turkish companies and
Korean companies.
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KRG (Kurdistan Regional Government) has since 1992
modernized the bank system into a modern network
with important bank activities, it is for an example
since 1996 possible to open saving accounts.
Iraqi Kurdistan has 33.265 students and more than
2.700 schools and the amount of millionaires in
south Kurdistan has grown from 5 (1991) to over 1000
(2003).
Foreign investers and workers has moved to south
Kurdistan because of the fast growing of per capita
income.
What we see is a wealthy country, with no borders...
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