CNN Market Place Middle East

SHOW #145

IN FOCUS: IRAQ'S ECONOMIC REVIVAL

Iraq is experiencing a massive construction boom especially in Baghdad where greater security has led to many companies investing in real estate projects. It is mostly foreign companies that are benefiting from the boom while many Iraqi companies feel abandoned by their government, having to lay off workers or shut down completely. MME looks at the highs and lows of this burgeoning property boom.

FACETIME: BARHAM SALIH, KURDISH PRIME MINISTER

Iraq is improving its economy and conveying its objectives, rebuilding and investment. Since 2007, Kurdistan has attracted more than $12 billion from local and foreign investors. But investing in Kurdistan can have a ripple effect throughout the whole country as the regions Prime Minister Barham Salih explains to MME.