‘There is no money’: Is Iraq entering a phase of lean years?
- Baghdad, Iraq – A colloquial phrase by Iraqi Minister of Health Abdul Hussein al-Musawi uttered at a meeting for medical staff, health workers and others in Baghdad made many Iraqis concerned.
- “There is no money,” he said, which, to many, seemed closer to an official declaration regarding the scale of the financial distress facing the Iraqi state.
- In an unprecedented moment of candour before his ministry’s employees, the minister revealed that the government has now placed securing salaries at the forefront of its priorities amid a stifling liquidity crisis.
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- Baghdad, Iraq – A colloquial phrase by Iraqi Minister of Health Abdul Hussein al-Musawi uttered at a meeting for medical staff, health workers and others in Baghdad made many Iraqis concerned.
- “There is no money,” he said, which, to many, seemed closer to an official declaration regarding the scale of the financial distress facing the Iraqi state.
- In an unprecedented moment of candour before his ministry’s employees, the minister revealed that the government has now placed securing salaries at the forefront of its priorities amid a stifling liquidity crisis.
Sources: Al Jazeera