Syrias once-promising economy has been set back more than 30 years by its brutal civil war, economists say, and it may never recover. Squeezed by sanctions and the fallout of the more than three-year-old conflict, the government faces dwindling revenues and is increasingly dependent on aid from key allies Iran and Russia. Inflation is in the double digits, half the population is unemployed and international trade has plummeted.
Posted on: Thu, 20 Nov 2014 06:19:28 +0000
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