Sarmada’s transformation was set in motion by the militarization of the Syrian uprising in 2012 and accelerated by Syria’s descent, shortly thereafter, into full-blown civil war. In 2012, the regime’s gradual withdrawal of its forces from rural areas in Idlib, where rebel activity was on the rise, cut Aleppo off from its economic hinterland. Meanwhile, rebel groups and regime forces carved up the city itself between them. The toll was devastating in terms of loss of human life, flight of both capital and skilled labor, and destruction of infrastructure. The nerve center of Syria’s commercial order in the north began to shift from Aleppo to the rebel-held northwestern border area, especially Sarmada and the nearby Bab al-Hawa crossing.
| Publication date 04 May 2021 | 11:15 ICT
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The poverty of economics and trade
Tue, 4 May 2021
Recent articles published in
The Post – Cambodia’s trade deficit to worsen to $2.3B per year with RCEP, says UNCTAD expert and Cambodia, ASEAN likely to teeter off balance with RCEP – raise a number of concerns about Cambodia’s possible membership of the free trade agreement. The commentary explores its effects throughout ASEAN, on the Cambodian economy, and debate about how to understand trade liberalisation. Discussion about Cambodia’s ongoing integration into the world economic system is certainly necessary; however, the articles overlooked some deeper issues about how mainstream economics shapes, and constrains a broader debate about public policy.
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Cambodia, ASEAN likely to teeter off balance with RCEP
Thu, 1 April 2021
Four months after RCEP was signed, a study surfaces, with gloomy trade data, portending a shaky future for the Kingdom and ASEAN as a whole
Prominent economist and trade policy scholar Jagdish Bhagwati once likened free trade agreements (FTAs) to “termites” that “eat away” at multilateral trading systems “relentlessly and progressively”.
His remark, which described the title of his 2008 book
Termites in the Trading System – How Preferential Agreements Undermine Free Trade, was intuitive in that he talked about how FTAs are “erroneously” pursued by governments in the hope of scoring a free trade agenda.
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Manager, Development Data Group, The World Bank Group
Umar Serajuddin is a Manager in the World Bank’s Development Data Group (Indicators and Data Services Unit). He leads the Bank’s Open Data initiative and oversees the management of the World Development Indicators. He manages the teams that publish some of World Bank’s most prominent global public goods including the global poverty numbers (PovcalNet), the World Integrated Trade Solutions (WITS), the Microdata Library, and Open Data Catalogue (Development Data Hub). He also coordinates the Bank’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) monitoring initiatives, and most recently the production of the 2020 SDG Atlas.