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Haddon Barth is a freelance writer covering Syria’s political economy and postwar reconstruction. His work has appeared in Foreign Policy, Lawfare, and L’Orient Today, and he has been interviewed by Carnegie Endowment on Syria’s transitional economy.
Syria’s New Investment Law and the Return of State-Mediated Market Access
As Syria moves toward reconstruction, the country’s new authorities have already made a consequential decision about who will control the postwar economy. Last June, President Ahmed al-Sharaa enacted Investment Law 114 by presidential decree, granting sweeping and permanent concessions to investors. Yet rather than make those incentives broadly accessible, the law preserves the country’s longstanding model of state-mediated market access.
