Iraq budget accelerates Kurdish drive towards autonomy
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- Spending patterns
- Security and defence
- Electricity sector
- Social welfare
- Fiscal decentralisation
- A politicised budget
- Challenge to the Kurds
- Under-funded cost recovery
- Shrinking KRG budget
- Peshmerga funding
- Threats to KRG transfers
- Implications
- Reduced oil revenues
- Political discontent
- KRG-Baghdad tensions
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