{"id":363208,"date":"2025-07-07T18:27:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/?p=363208"},"modified":"2025-07-07T18:28:43","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T15:28:43","slug":"world-bank-expects-syrias-gdp-to-grow-1-percent-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=363208","title":{"rendered":"World bank expects Syria\u2019s GDP to grow 1 percent in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Washington, SANA-The World Bank said on Monday that Syria\u2019s gross domestic product is expected to grow modestly by 1 percent in 2025, following a contraction of 1,5 percent in 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe easing of sanctions provides some upside potential; however, progress remains limited as frozen assets and restricted access to international banking continue to hinder energy supply, foreign assistance, humanitarian support, and trade and investment,\u201d the World Bank said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 25th, 2025, the World Bank approved a 146 $ million grant to support Syria&#8217;s electricity sector and economic recovery.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">US President Donald Trump issued on July 1st an executive order to lift sanctions imposed on the financial and banking sector in Syria.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Finance Minister Mohammad Yusr Barnieh considered the decision an important step that will reflect positively on the Syrian economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">khadega\/Abdurahim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, SANA-The World Bank said on Monday that Syria\u2019s gross domestic product is expected to grow modestly by 1 percent in 2025, following a contraction of 1,5 percent in 2024. \u201cThe easing of sanctions provides some upside potential; however, progress remains limited as frozen assets and restricted access to international banking continue to hinder energy &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":363210,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,6987,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-money-and-work","category-latest-news","category-news-bar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=363208"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":363211,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363208\/revisions\/363211"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/363210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}