
Powering the Recovery: the Electricity Sector at a Crossroads
Syria’s power grid remains on life support, but foreign investments offer hope. A close look at fuel supply, output, and costs helps clarify the significance of recent announcements.
Syria’s power grid remains on life support, but foreign investments offer hope. A close look at fuel supply, output, and costs helps clarify the significance of recent announcements.
Amid a liquidity crunch and monetary uncertainty, redenomination emerges as a potential technical fix and a symbolic reset, but is the timing right?
Granting Syria temporary tariff-free access helps shift its recovery from humanitarian aid to partnership. What can we learn from Ukraine’s case?
Syria’s reliance on indirect taxes and fees burdens lower-income households disproportionately. A modern, fairer tax regime—featuring VAT and excise reform—is long overdue.
From reconstruction contracts to refugee returns, Türkiye is racing to shape Syria’s future—and Erdoğan’s own political survival may depend on it. Gönül Tol examines Türkiye’s ambitions, rivals, and red lines in the wake of Assad’s collapse.
The Aid Fund for Syria expanded from the northwest to formerly regime-held areas after Assad’s fall, aiming to localize aid in support of early recovery. Emphasizing its apolitical approach, it faces funding cuts and sanctions hurdles.