Interview: Central Bank of Iraq's Chief Economist

In an interview Mudhir Kasim said that Iraq's central bank published official statistics for the first time in 26 years on Tuesday (17 Feb). "This is the first central bank bulletin since time immemorial. The information we produced before was secret," he said.

This is the starting point of regular publications of reports on the economy of the new Iraq and that the central bank was happy with current exchange rate against the US dollar, which had reached an important psychological level, he told

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