United Nations, United States, Feb 20, 2025 (AFP) - UN says Syria economic recovery could take half a century

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2025-02-20

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 massiv......

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