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 Lebanon’s Cash Economy: Some Thoughts and Figures
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Lebanon’s Cash Economy: Some Thoughts and Figures

research August 18, 2025

Monetary Aggregate1 Jan. 2018 (Trillion LBP) Jan. 2024 (Trillion LBP) Jan. 2025 (Trillion LBP) Δ = Jan.2025 -Jan.2024 (Trillion LBP) CC 5.39 57.08 84.93 27.85 DD LBP 4.90 28.66 36.65 7.99 M1 10.29 85.74 121.58 35.84 SD LBP 69.47 15.04 34.89 19.85 M2 79.76 100.78 156.47 55.69 Read More

 Lebanese Customs Revenue: Some Welcome but Surprising Results!
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Lebanese Customs Revenue: Some Welcome but Surprising Results!

research July 30, 2025

Lebanon’s customs revenue story is taking a surprising turn: despite only modest growth in imports, customs collections in early 2025 soared by 165% Read More

 The Big Mac Index and Lebanese Real Exchange Rates: Where Do We Stand?
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The Big Mac Index and Lebanese Real Exchange Rates: Where

research July 22, 2025

The nominal exchange rate as commonly known is the price of one currency in terms of another. It’s usually expressed as Read More

 Bank Audi Publishes its  Non-audited Financial Results for Q1 2025
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Bank Audi Publishes its Non-audited Financial Results for Q1 2025

research May 29, 2025

Bank Audi published on 27 May 2025 its non-audited financial results for Q1 2025. It stated that as to political stabilization and progress towards IMF Read More

 Does Lebanon Need a New Economic Model?
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Does Lebanon Need a New Economic Model?

research May 20, 2025

  Trillion LBP 2018 2019 2020 2021 GDP 82.8 80.3 96.9 245.6 Total Exports 17.2 16.6 27.2 96.2 Goods Exports 5.5 7.0 16.4 53.1 Service Exports 11.7 9.6 10.8 43.1 Total Imports 39.3 33.9 57.2 212.5 Goods Imports 29.8 24.9 45.9 172.8 Service Imports 9.5 9.0 11.3 39.7 % Goods Exports/ Service Exports 47 73 […]Read More

 IMF MENA: Growth Expected at 2.6% in 2025 in a Hazy Environment
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IMF MENA: Growth Expected at 2.6% in 2025 in a

research May 2, 2025

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, Read More

 Economic Implications of the Red Sea Crisis
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Economic Implications of the Red Sea Crisis

research April 7, 2025

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 Read More

 Debt Sustainability Analysis: A Critical Note on Lebanon
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Debt Sustainability Analysis: A Critical Note on Lebanon

research April 4, 2025

Debt Sustainability Analysis, perhaps needless to say, is of crucial importance to countries going through severe debt crisis. And it is so Read More

 BDL’s FX Market Operations and NFA: A Suggested Explanation
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BDL’s FX Market Operations and NFA: A Suggested Explanation

research March 20, 2025

In the spirit of transparency, and under the new Acting Governor, BDL published at end August 2023 its itemized liquid foreign currency balance Read More

 Lebanon: If and When Financial Assistance is Received and Spent, Beware Accelerating Inflation!
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Lebanon: If and When Financial Assistance is Received and Spent,

research March 6, 2025

It is widely hoped that Lebanon will receive financial assistance on concessional terms for recovery and reconstruction purposes. Recent, perhaps conservative, estimates Read More

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  • BBI 
    19/11/2025
    0.61%
  • BSI 
    20/11/2025
    0.09%
  • BPSI 
    20/11/2025
    0.00%
  • NEER 
    20/11/2025
    0.01%
  • Exchange Rate 
     
    89,700 LBP/USD
  • BDL Gold Reserve Value 
    15/11/2025
    38.47 Billion USD
  • BDL Foreign Assets Value 
    15/11/2025
    11.98 Billion USD
  • BLOM Lebanon PMI 
    October 2025
    50.6

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