Overview:

The Investment In Syria … Opportunities and competitive challenges

In every sense the current stage of the Syrian economy is currently very attractive to call for foreign direct investment opportunities and to promote the private sector to more efficient part in the Syrian GDP.

                                  
In addition, this stage is offering and providing many opportunities, it also creates different challenges headed by the issue of a competitive national economy and methods to improve it. In this context, the Syrian Economic Department is working on three axes, the modernization of legislation and laws and working to create new legislation, finding supportive institutions to pack up the social market economy such as banks, insurance companies and capital markets, and finally, activation of the appropriate market economy tools, such as; the independence of the Central Bank, partial liberalization of the interest rate ... Etc.

In the above mentioned themes,  Syria has shown a noticeable activity which reflected in its open economy and the ability to harmonize with the requirements of global changes, especially that, Syria has become one of the main destinations for investors in the current financial crisis.

        The industrial sector also had a share of the  development, particularly the private industrial sector, which was given special attention in the past few years, and has lived the challenges and opportunities created by the issues of competitiveness in the light of the trend towards open markets ... At the end, If those challenges were great for some industrial sectors more than others, generally speaking it helps to strengthen the national industry and increases the competitiveness in the foreign markets.

In the similar context, the experience and the major success of the industrial complexes which was established in Syria, has been well proven, especially after the great success which played an influential role in encouraging investment by providing an administrative facilities and the various tax cuts, which contributed to raise the volume of investment in ensuring the proper environment for the development of Syrian industry in general, and turned to planning for the establishment of other industrial complexes in various Syrian provinces.