Northeast Syria Market Monitoring Exercise, Snapshot: 1-8 March 2021
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INTRODUCTION
To inform humanitarian cash programming, REACH in partnership with the northeast (NES) and northwest (NWS) Syria Cash Working Group (CWG) conducts monthly Market Monitoring Exercises in northern Syria to assess the availability and prices of 36 basic commodities that are typically sold in markets and consumed by average Syrian households, including food and non-food items, water, fuel, and cellphone data.
Of these, 18 items comprise the Survival Minimum Expenditure Basket (SMEB; see below), which represents the minimum, culturally adjusted items required to support a 6-person household for a month.
Data collection took place between 1-8th March 2021 and was conducted by Care Shafak, GOAL, People In Need, Syrian Association for Relief and Development (SARD), Solidarités International, Violet, NRC and REACH.
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Central Bank Governor Dier Tong addressing the press on April 13, 2021, in Juba. [Photo: Radio Taamzuj]
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Wednesday April 14 2021
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The increase in domestic interest payment exerts a lot of pressure on government to meet its obligations of paying back the loans.
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The government has in a space of one year spent more than Shs1.5 trillion on domestic debt servicing as the country grapples with constrained resource envelop amid growing spending appetite.
In December last year, the total stock of outstanding government domestic debt increased by 27.3 per cent [Shs 22.127 trillion] from Shs17.376 trillion in December 2019.
The money, according to government, was borrowed with authority of Parliament to bridge the resource gap between tax revenues and the planned government expenditures for the Financial Year 2020/2021.