Once a hub of commerce and industry in the Middle East, Syria's means of production have been destroyed by years of conflict. The country's new leaders are making economic recovery a priority. First, ...

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So is Syria’s largest commercial bank. The Syrian pound has lost 99% of its value since the start of the civil war in 2011.

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Ex-deputy chairman of the Planning Commission and Economist Dr Montek Singh Ahluwalia reflected on his decades-long ...

MOSCOW, - Russian grain exporters will propose ways to reduce transaction costs on wheat payments to Egypt's new commodities importer, the head of the exporters' lobby group was quoted as saying ...

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Industrial firms use all these, together with imports, to avoid catastrophic outages. Chart: The Economist Coping strategies and ongoing repairs will contain the country’s average power deficit ...

Georgia was once seen as a vital island of democracy in the Caucasus. A year ago the European Union still hoped to fasten it to the West, formally recognising it in December 2023 as a candidate ...