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Business Daily: Refugee Economy

17/07/2014

Refugee Economy

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Is profiting from the refugees that have fled Jordan and Syria a good thing?

As many as a million refugees have fled to Jordan from Syria but should businesses profit from them?

Business Daily today examines the economics of refugees. As many as a million by some estimates have fled to Jordan from Syria. And increasingly their huge makeshift camps are replicating the commercial structures of cities. Is profiting from them a good thing? And, we hear the tale of the world's first ever share-holding company.

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