The Iraqi Government and the Arab Spring

The Iraqi government, from the time that it was formed as this kind of like fragile kind of sort of almost like compromise thing in 2006, over the years had evolved into something much, much beefier. The share of Iraqis living on less than $2.20 a day stayed at around 20% between 2007 and 2012. And so the thing with life under Maliki for Iraqis, you also had just like a continued state of mass deprivation.