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Between 2012 and 2017 Congo made the greatest strides in human development, according to the UN's Human Development Index. In 2017 people in the central African country lived for over [...]

The market must prevail Will President Bashar Assad hold his nerve? SYRIA has been edging away from a centrally planned socialist economy to a 'social market' one. 'The last five [...]

Why President Bashar Assad is feeling cock-a-hoop Syria's president, Bashar al-Assad, is reaping substantial benefits, both economic and political, from the Lebanese political deal agreed in Doha last month, for [...]

The future of Syria's economy Syrian government officials have been barely able to conceal their delight at the recent signs of a turnaround in the international approval ratings of their [...]

Buffeted by political turmoil and US sanctions, Syria is attempting to stem a precipitous decline in oil production and boost gas output. James Gavin reports from Damascus SYRIA IS more [...]

Databank: Economic indicators, 2000 ($ million) GDP Population GDP per GDP Imports 2000 capita growth (million) ($) (%) Algeria 47,015 30.8 1,526 4.5 9,000 Bahrain [*] 6,866 0.7 9,809 4.0 [...]

Databank: Economic forecasts, 2000-2001 Real GDP growth Current account (%) ($ million) 2000 2001 2000 2001 Algeria 4.5 5.0 6,050 3,200 Babrain 4.0 3.5 450 250 Egypt 2.4 3.6 -750 [...]

* The EU has agreed to provide a Eur 382,000 ($406,200) grant to finance projects aimed at protecting Syria's territorial seas and coasts from accidental oil pollution. * Television set [...]

Syrians have had to wait more than 45 years for the return of a stock market, after years of a centrally planned state-controlled economy. Now, one year after the Damascus [...]

Infrastructure spending features prominently in Syria's new economic plan for the 2011-2016 period, as the government seeks to keep pace with rapidly rising electricity demand. Deputy prime minister Abdullah al-Dardari [...]

Although much attention in the past year has focused on the political storm clouds gathering over Damascus, the economic challenges facing the country are no less daunting. During recent Article [...]

Syria's potential as a tourist destination may soon be realised. Overshadowed by the political fallout from Lebanon in the last year-and-a-half, the country's image has been far from positive in [...]

Syria's leader rarely ventures too far from Damascus. In recent years, his trips abroad have been limited to the odd excursion to Egypt for talks with President Mubarak, sporadic attendance [...]

DAMASCUS SYRIA'S peace talks with Israel are on hold, at least until after Israel's election at the end of May. Syrians-in-the-street are inclined to look forward to an eventual settlement. [...]

What's in a name? The answer is more than you might have bargained for, if you are intending to invest in Syria. This at least is the conclusion of one [...]

Saeb Nahas is one of Syria's most powerful private businessmen, and he has no doubt about how he wishes to be remembered. His lessons in business came from his father's [...]

The medium-term outlook for the Syrian economy is 'worrisome', the IMF has warned. The comments are contained in the conclusions to the fund's latest Article IV consultation with Damascus, published [...]

Syrian electricity exports to Lebanon, of 120-180 MW, are to resume shortly, according to the general manager of the country's electricity-transmission department. Supplies were stopped after the assassination of Lebanon's [...]

DAMASCUS TROUBLE looms for Syria. But Syrians won't read about it at home, because the press is state-run. Nor will anyone see much about it in the international press, because [...]

DAMASCUS SIX years ago, Syrian cars were museum pieces: Pontiacs and Chevrolets dating from the 1950s. High duties kept new imports out of Syrian hands. Today, the latest Mercedes and [...]