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A month after the U.N. and the Syrian government reached a bilateral agreement to replace the defunct U.N. Security Council mandated cross border mechanism, aid flow into northwest Syria has slowed to a trickle.

The World Bank and the Syrian Center for Policy Research released this week two separate reports analysing the impact of the earthquake in Syria’s war-torn economy.

The depreciation of the Syrian pound is causing unrest among regime loyalists. Meanwhile, as the Syrian pound and Turkish lira continue to plummet, the Syrian Salvation Government and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria are taking steps to distance themselves from the unstable currencies.

The Syrian pound’s rapid freefall has pushed the AANES to price its grain procurement prices in dollars as it competes with the Syrian government to buy the local crop. 

A recent increase in employee salaries by the Syrian Salvation Government and the AANES has highlighted the increasing gap with salaries paid by the Syrian government.

A new report surveying the varying socio-economic conditions in IDP camps across all four zones of control in Syria.