Financing Syria's Reconstruction

The Numbers That Do Not Hold · Rayan Azhari

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Front matter

• Financing Syria's Reconstruction
• Copyright
• Acknowledgements
• Author's Note

Part One: What Can Be Known

• Introduction: The Correction That Changed the Book
• Chapter 1: The Bill and the Denominator
• Chapter 2: The Numbers That Fail
• Chapter 3: What Uncertainty Costs

Part Two: What Must Be Settled Before Money Moves

• Chapter 4: Title, Land and Legitimacy
• Chapter 5: The State's File
• Chapter 6: The Payment System
• Chapter 7: People and Institutional Capacity

Part Three: What Can Actually Be Financed

• Chapter 8: The Energy Transition Already Under Way
• Chapter 9: Oil, Gas, Phosphate and Olives
• Chapter 10: A Map of Capital, Not a Pool

Part Four: What Happens First

• Chapter 11: Capability Gates
• Chapter 12: What the Record Will Bear

Back matter

• A note on the evidence
• Twenty figures, traced
• Corrections to Rewriting the Rules
• The questions this book does not answer
• Works cited
• Abbreviations
• About the author