The BLOM Lebanon Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) dropped from 46.9 in February to 46.3 in March as output continued to contract in light of political uncertainty. Balance of payments data by February ...
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered as one of the important contributors of economic growth and development especially for developing countries.In recent years, FDI in Lebanon started to slow ...
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The BLOM Lebanon Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) increased from 46.5 in January 2019 to 46.9 in February as output and new orders declined at a slower pace, the slowest in a year. On January 31st the ...
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The BLOM Lebanon Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) slid from 46.7 in November 2018 to 46.2 in December 2018 and therefore ended 2018 below the average of 46.3 for the year. The PMI readings therefore ...
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A bare uptick in the BLOM Lebanon Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) from 45.6 in August to 45.8 in September still hints at a gloomy operating environment for the Lebanese private sector. Lebanon has now ...
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It used to be known as the “Merchant Republic” and, better still, as the “Switzerland of the Middle East”, and its capital city was referred to as the “Paris of the East”. If you think that country is ...
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The Real GDP Growth appears to be declining in the third quarter of the year following the disappointing PMI reading in July compared to the previous months. The BLOM Lebanon Purchasing Managers’ Index ...
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The BLOM Lebanon Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) registered 46.0 in June 2018 compared to 46.4 in May 2018. In fact, Lebanese private sector businesses have been citing local and regional political ...
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The BLOM Lebanon Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) registered 46.4 in May 2018 compared to 46.2 in April 2018. The activity at Lebanese Private Sector businesses remained subdued in May with surveyed ...
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Abstract The substantial delay in publishing national accounts (namely the Gross Domestic Product, GDP) and thus economic growth (g) in developed and developing countries cripples financiers’ and ...
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