Bashar abolished any resemblance of social security in Syria before the war, it’s one of the main reasons why the regime destabilised. At first people thought “new guy, hopefully less torture and more flexible and vibrant economy”, what they got was just as much if not more torture, and economical conditions where you could go without roof and food. He broke the social contract.
I very much doubt the current government is thinking about abolishing state food and housing programmes, more like the opposite: Both because of popular demand and because Islam talks at length about taking care of the poor. This is about privatising soap factories.
Shock therapy incoming in 3…2…1…
But even that is better than war, I guess, what state were the social services in?
Bashar abolished any resemblance of social security in Syria before the war, it’s one of the main reasons why the regime destabilised. At first people thought “new guy, hopefully less torture and more flexible and vibrant economy”, what they got was just as much if not more torture, and economical conditions where you could go without roof and food. He broke the social contract.
I very much doubt the current government is thinking about abolishing state food and housing programmes, more like the opposite: Both because of popular demand and because Islam talks at length about taking care of the poor. This is about privatising soap factories.
Assad already enacted neoliberal reforms in the 2000s.