The Syrian economy has witnessed accelerating inflation rates during the period 2011-2018 as a result of the war and economic sanctions that drained peoples’ wealth, restricted the overall production sector, reduced productivity, deepened structural imbalances, and forced the macro economy into coercive austerity policies that increased the disparity and contradiction between demand and supply. This resulted in higher rates of productivity decline, and a state of contraction in aggregate supply, accompanied by the absence of a clear agenda for managing and containing the Syrian crisis, restoring economic activity, and revitalizing capital formation and production. The research concluded the necessity of mobilizing domestic savings, rationalizing their use, and adopting strategies that stimulate demand that are adapted to the war economy that Syria is witnessing.
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