News

The World Bank anticipates a 1% growth in Syria's GDP by 2025, succeeding a 1.5% decline in 2024. While easing sanctions ...
The World Bank said on Monday it expected Syria’s gross domestic product (GDP) to grow modestly by 1% in 2025, following a ...
Arabian Gulf Business Insight on MSN6d
Syria to return to growth in 2025, says World Bank
The Syrian economy is expected to grow modestly in 2025, driven by the new government’s policies aimed at attracting foreign investment, according to the World Bank. The economy is expected to expand ...
Syria’s real GDP contraction is projected to widen by 2.3 percentage points in 2023 because of the earthquake, on top of an earlier projected contraction of 3.2% in 2023 (Syria Economic Monitor – ...
Years of strife ruined the energy sector, battered the currency and strangled growth. The West must ease financial controls to help the economy, experts say.
The stock market has done a solid job pricing in the poor outlook for growth, while credit markets and interest rate markets appear mispriced relative to economic reality. Find out more.
In a report released in March, the OECD’s Interim Economic Outlook projected global growth to reach 2.6% in 2023 and 2.9% in 2024. This growth is on the back of improved business and consumer ...
According to the report, in the year preceding the war's eruption, Syria's GDP was $62 billion, and it had a growth rate exceeding 5% over the previous five years.
Slower population growth is wired into the U.S. outlook at this point, immigration remains a politically-charged issue, and better productivity, the other key driver of growth, is hard to anticipate.
Syria remains one of the Middle East’s most isolated economies, resisting the economic trends sweeping the rest of the region (i.e. privatization). The ...
The global economic outlook has “darkened” and the world may soon be “teetering on the edge of a global recession,” the IMF warned.