The current crisis has been deteriorating in Syria since the spring of 2011 with an
armed conflict which is causing catastrophic effects on development performance
through the wide-spread destruction of infra-structure as well as the capabilities a
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potential economic losses which will impact upon the prospects for both current and
future generations. It was those economic and social policies which were already
ineffective for the government during the past decade - before the current crisis
played a key role in this situation. In addition, there were the objective conditions of
other economic sanctions placed upon Syria by the United States, and later by the
European Union, including other pressures to force Syria to abandon its own vision
of economic development and the ways to solve the Arab - Israeli conflict.
The aim of this study is to shed light on those economic and social policies and their
results and then to estimate the economic losses which have been caused by acts of
sabotage by armed gangs by using a methodology based on the comparison of
economic and social indicators during the crisis in 2011 and 2012. This methodology
will take into account those economic and social policy indicators which would be
determined without the current crisis and by also assuming the continuation of the
pre-crisis effects. It will be the economic and social implications of the beneficiaries
of the accounts and estimates which will be carried out by a group of Syrian
researchers in the Syrian Centre for Policy Research. ...
