VOL. XLIV

No. 04

22-January-2001

SYRIA

$5.6Bn Over 10 Years Needed To Reform Syrias Industrial Sector

The Syrian Governments industrial reform plan is expected to cost around $5.6bn, or $560mn per year, over a 10-year period, according to the official daily Tishrin on 14 January. The paper said that a committee of 35 economic experts, including former ministers, industrialists and politicians, has been assigned the task of overseeing Syrian economic reform and has already recommended that foreign...