ERBIL’S WEALTHIER SUBURBS are beginning to look like a city in the Arab Gulf – Dubai, or Saudi Arabia, perhaps. Half-finished hotels and office blocks, and tacky housing developments, are interspersed with busy new highways radiating away from the ancient citadel at the core of the capital of Iraqi Kurdistan.
With peace, other parts of Iraq might come to look like Saudi Arabia too. If the country meets its oil industry targets, it could even become the world’s biggest producer by the end of the decade.
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