http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSKBN0E81WL20140528

Syria's economy heads into ruin: U.N. sponsored report

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi
AMMAN Wed May 28, 2014

(Reuters) - Syria's economy, rocked by four years of civil war, is shrinking fast as industrial and agricultural output falls, leaving almost two thirds of the population in extreme poverty, according to a U.N. sponsored report released on Wednesday.