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Political Economy of Investment in Syria

The political economy of Syria before the uprising Data and methodology Syria: a traditionally self-sufficient economy Syria's rent-based economic growth during 1990-2010 Impact of oil revenues on macroeconomic development An overview of the trend in gross fixed capital formation rate and its decomposition since the 1960s17 A critical examination of the theoretical investment approaches within the context of state-controlled developing economies Structure of the book Review of the Theoretical Framework on Investment Decisions Investment, capital and capital accumulation The conventional neoclassical theory of investment Drawbacks of the neoclassical theory of investment and capital The demand-led approach to investment Expectations, risk and uncertainty Closing remark Investment Promotion in Developing Countries The 'socialisation of investment'Investment promotion in the developing world and the role of the state The developmental state paradigm The structuralist paradigm4 The state-capitalist paradigm6 The state-capitalist class as the agent of investment Concluding remarks Class and State Capitalism in Syria Introduction Definition of social class The Syrian road to state capitalism Syria's old bourgeois class: was it an agent of investment?The formation of the Ba'ath party Syria's middle class aspires to radical change The lifelong opposition of the Muslim Brotherhood The role of the military State capitalism under Ba'athist rule The state-capitalist class in control of the state The rise of the new commercial bourgeoisie The class aspect of Syrian workers12 The delinking of the working class from the political process The Hafiz Assad regime (1970-2000)Twilight of state capitalism Concluding remarks Investment Liberalisation during the Hafiz Assad Regime: Moving to a 'Freer' Market Introduction Overdetermination of politics in Syria's movement toward infitah Hafiz sets the foundation for piecemeal and tailored market expansion Lebanon: a facilitator for Syria's slow pace of economic liberalisation The early Hafiz days: living the legacy of statism The economic crisis of the mid-1980s Investment liberalisation in 1991: opening the way to a 'freer' market Concluding remarks Economic Liberalisation as an Irreversible Trend during the Bashar Regime: The Socioeconomic Fuel of the Syrian Crisis Introduction The Bashar Assad regime: difficult inheritance and the metamorphosis of the state bourgeoisie Bashar's uncontrolled lurch into a market-driven economic order Investment liberalisation Trade liberalisation Privatisation of state farms Lifting of price controls and subsidies Private banking system Monetary policy The issue of privatisation The implications of investment reforms during Bashar and Hafiz regimes Law No. 10's contribution to industrial activities Distribution of investment projects of Law No. 10 by economic sector The divide between industrialists and merchants LD No. 8 of 2007 boosted investment in real estate Law No. 10's impact on foreign direct investment The socioeconomic roots of the Syrian uprising of 2011 Rising unemployment and poverty Social polarisation Dampening of purchasing power Deteriorating living conditions in the countryside Concluding remarks The book in perspective What's next for Syria? No room for socioeconomic planning amid imperialist-sponsored violence Bibliography

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The political economy of Syria before the uprising
The Syrian uprising began in March 2011, initially as a result of the domino effect of the Arab uprisings that were sweeping the region; later the conflict evolved into full civil war. Nevertheless, the causes of the unrest remain complex and multi-layered. In political-economic terms, the Syrian uprising...
(Political Economy of Investment in Syria)
Macro and microeconomics are on the same level of generality with political economy (without identifying with it).
What is essential in understanding our book also refers on how to develop and explore concepts. Each concept of the whole economy and each conceptual structure part Macroeconomics' own conceptual structure is different from that of microeconomic and political economy. shall be developed within a...
(Macroeconomics)
Resources and Perspectives from Media Political Economy
Justin Schlosberg The existence of media management studies as a delineated field of scholarly inquiry rests on an inherent conceptual tension. Management studies have traditionally been goal oriented towards identifying the structures and practices that maximise a firm's capacity to survive...
(Managing Media Firms and Industries)
Political Economy Roots
Political economy is the study of the relationship between economic structures and processes on the one hand and the production of values and power in society on the other. When applied to the media, political economic accounts tend to examine the impact on media output of industry structure and ownership...
(Managing Media Firms and Industries)
Political Economy at a Crossroads
The decline of this paradigm coincided with the rise of digital communications and an associated dismantling of information control (McNair, 2006). Digital utopianists place emphasis on the exponential growth of decentralised and de-territorialised networks of communication, the spread of multiway and...
(Managing Media Firms and Industries)
Political Economy of Economic Growth
Revisiting the African Economic Growth Agenda: Focus on Inclusive and Pro-poor Growth? Abstract This paper determines whether the recent growth trajectory in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has been inclusive and pro-poor and discusses potential policies in making growth more inclusive. The motivation...
(Accelerated Economic Growth in West Africa)
The Political Economy of Reforms
The political economy of subsidy reforms in Morocco has been driven largely by the global prices of strategic commodities and by the increasing cost of subsidies to the state’s budget. From an equalization fund with own resources sufficient to conduct its mission of stabilizing prices of basic commodities...
(The Quest for Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Microsimulation Approach to Policy Making)
The Political Economy of Reforms
Attempts at subsidy reforms were made during the decade that preceded the revolution, but they did not last. In the early 2000s, following the removal of international sanctions, Libya embarked on a reform path to modernize and open up its economy (Vandewalle 2011), and cutting subsidies seems to have...
(The Quest for Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Microsimulation Approach to Policy Making)
The Political Economy of Reforms
The simulations indicate that the current subsidy system provides valuable assistance to the poor, but at the same time are prorich and inefficient. Eliminating subsidies and compensating the poor and vulnerable with a direct cash transfer would be a more effective form of social protection. Subsidy...
(The Quest for Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Microsimulation Approach to Policy Making)
The Political Economy of Reforms
Once adopted, subsidies are hard to remove. Usually countries have to conduct reform by piecemeal changes with constant reversals. Fear of loss of economic rents and political power are common factors behind reluctance to reform subsidies (Commander 2012). The Republic of Yemen was not an exception....
(The Quest for Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region: A Microsimulation Approach to Policy Making)