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Syria: Hours of Waiting… for a Few Dollars

This is Beirut, 18/04 19:08 - Reading : less than a minute

Damascus Syria crisis liquidity dollars

In Damascus, lines stretch in front of ATMs. Amid a severe liquidity crisis, Syrians sometimes wait for hours to withdraw the equivalent of 20 dollars a day. This is daily life in a country where 90% of the population lives below the poverty line.

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