Gareth Browne
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first heard May 2026
last heard 20 Jul
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The Intelligence from The Economist · A firm Andy: what are new British PM’s plans? · 20 Jul 2026
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And you know, I imagine being a Syrian and looking at this area and thinking, where on earth do you start?
Imagine an empty plot of land, which then you had to, you know, not only build a house on, but also connect it to the water and the power and the electricity and the internet network.
Well, Syria is even worse than.
Because you don't have empty land, you have mountains and mountains of rubble.
Well, the figures are eye watering.
The World Bank says that more than a hundred billion dollars worth of physical assets in Syria have been destroyed during the war.
Some reconstruction costs are estimated to be more than two hundred billion dollars.
That's more than ten times the country's GDP in twenty twenty four.
And it's every corner of life.
There are places you go where the bridges over rivers have been destroyed, so you have to get on small barges and the telecoms network is patchy.
Water, energy.
People can't heat their homes in the winter.
They don't have electricity throughout the day and night.
They can't run a refrigerator.
So this is like a holistic demand to rebuild
almost from scratch, a country, its infrastructure and its institutions.
It can happen.
And I think there's two strategies.
From the government, you see this top-down approach of pursuing big investment deals from foreign partners, the Gulf, Europe, America.
And then you also have this grassroots approach.
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