Syria has suffered $143.8-bn eco**mic loss due to civil war: UN
 

United Nations, May 29 (IANS/WAM) Syria has suffered $143.8 billion in eco**mic losses due to the continuing civil war in the country, according to a new UN report. The joint report by the Syrian Centre for Policy Research and the UN says that even as the death toll from Syria's three-year civil war continues to rise, the country's human development has also suffered immense collateral damage -- the eco**my has been gutted, the healthcare system is in ruins, and education facilities are "teetering". "Syria is **w blighted by joblessness and overwhelmed by unemployment," said Alex Pollock, director of micro-finance for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which worked with the UN Development Programme (UNDP) and the Syrian Centre for Policy Research to compile the report.

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