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  "title": "Syria’s Conflict Economy",
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  "summary": "Five years into the ongoing and tragic conflict, the paper analyzes how Syria’s economy and its people have been affected and outlines the challenges in rebuilding the economy. With extreme limitations on information, the findings of the paper are subject to an extraordinary degree of uncertainty.",
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      "content": "- The devastating civil war has set the country back decades in terms of economic, social and human development.\n- Syria’s GDP today is less than half of what it was before the war started.\n- It could take two decades or more for Syria to return to its pre-conflict GDP levels.\n- While reconstructing damaged physical infrastructure will be a monumental task, rebuilding Syria’s human and social capital will be an even greater and lasting challenge."
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      "content": "- The analysis stresses severe data limitations and explicitly notes an extraordinary degree of uncertainty surrounding the findings.\n- The paper focuses on economic, social, and human development impacts rather than operational reconstruction plans."
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      "content": "- By Jeanne Gobat, Kristina Kostial\n- June 29, 2016\n- IMF Working Paper No. 2016/123\n- Pages: 29\n- DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781498336826.001\n\nSource: IMF Working Paper “Syria’s Conflict Economy”\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- wp16123\n  - wp16123 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - wp16123 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/syrias-conflict-economy-44033"
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