Summarizing the IMF’s May 2025 Regional Economic Outlook for the Middle East and North Africa on May 1, 2025 in Dubai, Mr. Jihad Azour, Director of the Middle East and Central Asia Department, outlined the ... read more
To start with, between October 2023 and December 2024, Houthi forces have conducted 201 attacks on commercial vessels, resulting in 12 fatalities. The resulting crisis has inflicted huge cost globally, but ... read more
Debt Sustainability Analysis, perhaps needless to say, is of crucial importance to countries going through severe debt crisis. And it is so because of primarily two reasons: first, to ensure what would be ... read more
In the spirit of transparency, and under the new Acting Governor, BDL published at end August 2023 its itemized liquid foreign currency balance sheet, which showed that BDL’s liquid net foreign assets ... read more
It is widely hoped that Lebanon will receive financial assistance on concessional terms for recovery and reconstruction purposes. Recent, perhaps conservative, estimates put the assistance at $12.5 billion ... read more
On 4 February 2025, J.P. Morgan issued a report on Lebanon, Lebanon: Politics and stability before economics, in which it indicated that “Lebanon bonds have seen a steep rise following a cease-fire deal ... read more
This spotlight is written in memory of Professor Samih Antoine Azar, a remarkable economist and an excellent contributor to the Blog. In his seminal book, Capital in the 21st Century, Thomas Piketty ... read more
During the week ending September 25, 2014, broad Money M3 dropped by LP 52B ($34.49M), to reach LP 175,228B ($116.24B). M3 growth rate reached 7.17% year-on-year and 4.57% since year start. However, M1 ... read more
Demand for the dollar steadied over the prior week as reflected by the Lebanese pound’s peg against the dollar that remained at $/LP 1,510-1,514 with a mid-price of $/LP 1,512, since last week. Foreign ... read more
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