Paper Title:
Beyond FDIs: Towards Sustainable and Socially Accountable Investment in Syria

Date:
24 June 2025

Publisher: 
LUGARIT

Author: 
Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj

Summary:
The article critiques blanket investment incentives in Syria’s recovery, urging performance-based, socially accountable policies. It advocates sector- and region-specific strategies, safeguards against elite capture, and decentralization to empower local governance. Drawing on regional lessons, it promotes investment that generates public value, reduces inequality, and supports inclusive, sustainable reconstruction.

Link:
https://link.lugarit.com/UaX5

Photo: 
Residents of Eastern Aleppo queue for bread on a harsh winter morning. In a city scarred by conflict and deprivation, such scenes reflect the urgent need for recovery strategies that serve the many, not the few.  Aleppo, Syria.  23 January 2025.  Photo © Andrea Backhaus - via ShutterStock.


Beyond FDIs: Towards Sustainable and Socially Accountable Investment in Syria

العنوان 
الاستثمارات الأجنبية لا تكفي: نحو تمويل مستدام يستجيب لاحتياجات المجتمع في سوريا

تاريخ النشر
٢٤ حزيران ٢٠٢٥

الناشر 
لوغاريت 

المؤلف
عمر عبد العزيز الحلاج 

الخلاصة
تنتقد المقالة سياسة الحوافز الاستثمارية الشاملة في سوريا بعد الصراع، وتدعو إلى سياسات قائمة على الأداء وخاضعة للمساءلة الاجتماعية. وتطرح استراتيجيات محددة بحسب القطاعات والمناطق، وآليات للحد من هيمنة النخب، وتؤكد على اللامركزية. مستفيدة من دروس إقليمية، تعزز الاستثمار الذي يخدم الصالح العام ويحد من التفاوت ويدعم إعادة إعمار شاملة ومستدامة.

الرابط 
https://link.lugarit.com/UaX5

الصورة
يصطفّ سكان شرق حلب في طابور الخبز في صباح شتوي قارس. في مدينة أنهكتها الحرب والحرمان، تعكس هذه المشاهد الحاجة الملحّة إلى استراتيجيات تعافٍ تخدم الجميع، لا القلّة. حلب، سوريا. ٢٣ كانون الثاني ٢٠٢٥. الصورة © أندريا باكهاوس - عبر شترستوك.


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