A man looks at gold jewellery at a shop in a gold market in Arbil, in Iraq's Kurdistan region March 16, 2014. A financial squeeze from the Baghdad government shows how reliant Kurdistan remains on Baghdad for a slice of the OPEC producer's multi-billion dollar budget, so long as it cannot export oil in large volumes itself. The funding crunch hitting the Kurdish economy, which has boomed since the 2003 U.S.-led Iraq war, has been felt acutely in the gold bazaar, which serves as an informal banking system. Picture taken March 16, 2014. REUTERS/Azad Lashkari (IRAQ - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES POLITICS)