‘14 years undone’: Syria’s dire economic outlook revealed

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UN warns Syrian economy needs over five decades to recover to ‘pre-war level’

Fourteen years of war and western sanctions on Syria have brought the country’s GDP down to less than half of what it was before 2011

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UN says Syria economic recovery could take half a century

Syria would need more than 50 years to get back to its economic level before its devastating civil war at current growth rates, the United Nations said Thursday. "Fourteen years of conflict in Syria have undone nearly four decades of economic, social, and human capital progress," the UN Development Programme (UNDP) said. "At current growth rates, Syria's economy will not regain its pre-conflict GDP level before 2080," it added, calling for massi…

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‘14 years undone’: Syria’s dire economic outlook revealed

Syria would need more than 50 years to get back to its economic level before its devastating civil war at present growth rates, the United Nations said on...

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Fourteen years of conflict have undone nearly four decades of economic and social progress in Syria, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). According to UNDP forecasts, at the current growth rate, the Syrian economy will not be able to return to pre-conflict levels until 2080. To shorten the recovery period to ten years, annual economic growth must increase six times.

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■ United Nations - AFP: The United Nations considered on Thursday that the Syrian economy needs 55 years to return to the level it was in 2010 before the outbreak of the conflict if it continues to grow at the current pace, calling on the international community to invest heavily in this country to accelerate the wheel of growth. Achim Steiner, head of the United Nations Development Program, said in a report […]

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UNITED NATIONS – The 14 years of armed conflict in Syria left a four-decade retreat for economic, social and human capital progress that, at the current pace, would take 55 years to recover, indicated a report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). If it does not accelerate [...] This article Syria may take half a century to recover from the war was originally published in IPS News Agency