Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. XLVII

No 44

1-November-2004

BUDGETS AND REVENUES

Labor Market Pressure Makes Reform Essential, Says Asads Adviser

Pressure on Syrias labor market is the most important economic challenge facing the country, making economic reform imperative, according to Nibras al-Fadhil, an economic adviser to President Bashar al-Asad. In an interview published in al-Hayat on 16 October, he said that this pressure was unlikely to ease up in the coming years. To absorb the growing...