Why the KRG public employees haven't received their wages for three months

View of central square in Erbil, situated just south of the citadel. The city is one of the oldest cities in the world and the citadel, which dominates the city, was added to the Unesco world heritage list in 2014. Source: Moment RF / Frans Sellies/Getty Images

Naseem Sadiq discusses the ongoing challenge of monthly wage payments in the public sector, accumilated by the Baghdad central government's refusal to allocate its petroleum funds to the Kurdistan region. Consequently, the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) struggles to meet payroll obligations for public employees, leading to delays and impacting regional infrastructure projects.

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