The pro-Syrian regime Al-Watan newspaper said Saturday the Finance Ministry will increase the minimum import prices ​​for 15 commodities.   A number of members of the Damascus Chamber of Commerce said the decision has not yet reached them, but they made it clear that any...

The prices of animal feed have risen in the opposition-held areas in northern Syria, taking advantage of the decline in local production as a result of drought and Turkey's prohibition of exporting feed to the foreign market.   In the markets on northern countryside of Aleppo, the...

The Syrian  Health   Ministry raised the prices of 11,819 medicinal products in response to the warnings of the owners of pharmaceutical factories in Syria, who threatened to stop production if prices were not raised.   The Aliqtisadi-Syria website said the owners of...

  Fadi Hassan is a research associate at the London School of Economics’ Centre for Economic Performance and Andrea Presbitero is an associate professor of economics at Johns Hopkins University. In this guest post they argue the economic sanctions against Syria should be...