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Child mortality, illiteracy and poverty are on the rise
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Life for most Iraqis has become a nightmare.
Unemployment, child mortality, illiteracy and poverty are on the rise. Clean water and electricity supplies have become a luxury for most people.
Many are getting desperate and have resigned themselves to a bleak future.
Ironically, the Iraqi treasury is brimming with billions of petrodollars.
Is this just a case of incompetence and mismanagement or is the problem simply too big for the Iraqi government to handle?
Should Nouri al-Maliki's government seek the expertise of international organisations?
Our guests this week are Hans von Sponeck, a former UN coordinator for Iraq, Dr Said Hakky, the president of the Iraqi Red Crescent, and Jane Arraf, a former CNN Baghdad bureau chief.
Watch part one of this episode of Inside Iraq
Watch part two of this episode of Inside Iraq
This episode of Inside Iraq aired from Friday, June 27, 2008
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