I’m going to do something rather unconventional for LGF (I think), and quote a piece of news. In Swedish.

But I will translate it, so you will be fine. I’ve been trying to find these figures in English, but struggling, so here goes.

Efter Irakkriget har ekonomin brjat vxa. r 2007 var tillvxten i BNP 1,5 procent, r 2008 hela 10 procent. Och trots den globala lgkonjunkturen r den frska prognosen frn Internationella Valutafonden (IMF) i konjunkturbarometern frn april att Iraks tillvxt i real BNP blir 6,9 procent 2009 och 6,7 procent nsta r.

Rough translation:

After the Iraq war the econmy has begun to grow. In 2007 economic growth of GDP was 1.5 per cent, 2008 10 per cent. And in spite of the global recession the most recent prognosis from the international monotary fund (IMF) from April states that Iraqi growth will be 6.9 per cent in 2009 and 6.7 per cent next year.

From the Swedish blog erixon.com