Tuesday 18 June 2013

Syria's Economic Collapse - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

"A Syrian academic study has shown that the total losses of the war up until the first quarter of this year amounted to $85 billion, which means that the losses of this first quarter are nearly equal to those of last year. Simultaneously, the prices of hard currencies, including the dollar, have tripled in comparison to the initial prices recorded three years ago. Thus, the government was driven to lay out a rationed import-export policy, limiting the role of the private sector."

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