Syria carries an X in both the CED and the GER columns of Table 14 of the Global Financial Integrity study, headed 'Countries Dropped to Zero Due to Normalization', whose caption states that an X marks the component in which a country dropped to zero 'either for some or all years over the period 2000-2009'.
Claim ID
CH2-008
Exact or summary claim
Syria carries an X in both the CED and the GER columns of Table 14 of the Global Financial Integrity study, headed 'Countries Dropped to Zero Due to Normalization', whose caption states that an X marks the component in which a country dropped to zero 'either for some or all years over the period 2000-2009'.
Destination
02-numbers-that-fail
Status
SUPPORTED
Source
SRC-037
Source type
Official technical report, tier 3
Published
2011-12
Accessed
2026-08-12
Measure and scope
Table 14 and its caption, read at the document on 12 August 2026. The claim is about which components were zeroed for Syria in some or all years, NOT that the whole Syrian series was zeroed: Table 9 gives Syria a normalised cumulative of US$15,288 million, so the zeroing was partial
Known conflict
None known. The chapter's normalisation passage did not carry it through v14
Downstream
The normalisation passage. It establishes that the conservative figure is not the high-end figure scaled down by a uniform filter