Transition Year: Syria’s Public Sector Faces Free-Market Purge and Centralised Control
Since the collapse of the Bashar Al-Assad regime a year ago and the subsequent takeover of power by Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS), led by the current Transitional President Ahmad Al-Sharaa, the Syrian economy has witnessed a rapid pivot towards free-market principles combined with a highly centralised and opaque decision-making structure.
