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
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
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, perhaps needless to say, is of crucial importance to countries going through severe debt crisis. And it is so 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 Read More
It is widely hoped that Lebanon will receive financial assistance on concessional terms for recovery and reconstruction purposes. Recent, perhaps conservative, estimates 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 Read More
This spotlight is written in memory of Professor Samih Antoine Azar, a remarkable economist and an excellent contributor to the Blog. In Read More
Throughout history, wars have surged in the Middle East in a repeated and regular manner. Due to its strategic location, abundance of 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% Read More
