Final UN report qualifies forecasts received late in the mission

The final UN report described many small construction firms emerging in war-damaged areas as owners used reconstruction grants and contracted rebuilding work. It connected housing recovery with...

The final UN report linked wartime priorities and restricted access to technological change with an ageing productive and infrastructure base. Restoring output quickly could conflict with the need...

The UN team urged careful assessment of equipment repair or replacement to avoid locking in outdated technology. It cited telecommunications reconstruction that mixed locally produced older...

The final UN report stated that recorded government reconstruction expenditure had been financed domestically. It linked spending priorities to maintaining oil production, industrial output,...

The UN team judged recorded reconstruction costs understated because they excluded cannibalized equipment and depleted spare-part stocks. These practices helped maintain production when attacks and...

The final UN report stated that oil and petrochemicals represented 56.5 percent of the reconstruction expenditure forecast. It highlighted the sector’s large foreign-exchange requirements for modern...

Iran’s five-year plan envisaged about 27 billion dollars from foreign sources for specific new projects. The final UN report distinguished this from investments already being undertaken and...

The final UN report described Iran seeking the return of trained personnel who had emigrated. It also linked planned foreign-participation projects with workplace training and longer-term efforts to...

The final UN report relayed concerns that pollution and contamination along the Karun River constrained regional economic activity and affected farmland. It identified environmental recovery as a...

Authorities reported unusually frequent eye, stomach and skin illnesses in affected rural communities. The final UN report stated that health authorities could not explain the exact cause, despite...