Publication: Syria Economic Monitor, Winter 2022/23: Syria’s Economy in Ruins after a Decade-long War
Date
2023-03-28
ISSN
Published
2023-03-28
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The World Bank’s teams have been
resorting to the use of a mix of standard tools and
innovative geospatial and remote-based data sources (e.g.,
nighttime lights, shipping-position data, traffic congestion
data, aviation statistics, mobile phone location data,
remote sensing vegetation indices, and conflict intensity
maps) to reveal economic trends and analyze unrecorded
activities that are prominent in war-torn economies like
Syria. Macroeconomic conditions in Syria have substantially
deteriorated since the start of the war in Ukraine. Already
very high, the vulnerability of Syrian households is on the
rise. Subject to high uncertainty, real gross domestic
product (GDP) is projected to contract by 3.2 percent in
2023, following a 3.5 percent decline in 2022.
Citation
“World Bank. 2023. Syria Economic Monitor, Winter 2022/23: Syria’s Economy in Ruins after a Decade-long War. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/39611 License: CC BY-NC 3.0 IGO.”