Jobs in Iraq

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dc.creatorBandiera, Luca
dc.creatorChandra, Vandana
dc.creatorFosque, Jasmine
dc.creatorvon der Goltz, Jan
dc.creatorPeterburs, Teresa Maria
dc.creatorPiffaretti, Nadia
dc.creatorSaba, Joseph
dc.creatorWheeler, Collette
dc.date2019-02-25T16:42:11Z
dc.date2019-02-25T16:42:11Z
dc.date2019-02-19
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-01T00:39:34Z
dc.descriptionIraq needs a strategy to make rapid progress in tackling its profound jobs challenges. Iraq is facing a jobs crisis of unprecedented proportions. It could foment a resurgence in violence unless the Government of Iraq makes credible and swift progress in job creation and reconstruction. To shape a longer-term vision, Iraq can look beyond its recent history of conflict, and to its past as a diversified economy & home of an educated workforce. However, in the short-term, neither private/ public sector hiring can create jobs at the desired scale without significant new policy action. The first-best solution for large-scale private sector job creation hinges on structural reforms that must begin now, but are achievable only in the medium to longer term. This paper provides a primer on options to deliver large-scale job creation in the short term, based on investments in construction, agriculture and agribusiness, small & medium enterprises, and vocational skills. Its aim is to outline workable steps for progress in a jobs crisis in a post-conflict situation. Because these steps focus on rapid impact at scale, rather than structural reform, they are less-than-ideal or second-best. A similar logic applies to financing options. Financing needs for jobs are large, and while business climate reforms are under way, first-best private investment in jobs will remain limited. Yet, the recent oil price hike offers the Government of Iraq a uniquely timely opportunity to make an investment in jobs.
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dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/996841550594930714/Jobs-in-Iraq-A-Primer-on-Job-Creation-in-the-Short-Term
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/31319
dc.identifier10.1596/31319
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/408515
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relationJobs Working Paper,no. 22;
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.rightsWorld Bank
dc.subjectJOB CREATION
dc.subjectCONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY
dc.subjectPUBLIC WORKS
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE
dc.subjectAGRIBUSINESS
dc.subjectSMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES
dc.subjectVOCATIONAL TRAINING
dc.subjectSKILLS DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectSTATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES
dc.subjectPUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS
dc.titleJobs in Iraq
dc.titleA Primer on Job Creation in the Short-Term
dc.typeWorking Paper
dc.typeDocument de travail
dc.typeDocumento de trabajo

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