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Central Administration of Statistics: Lebanon’s National Accounts 2018

The Central Administration of Statistics (CAS) recently published the national accounts report for 2018, which revealed that Lebanon’s real GDP growth fell by 1.9%, marking the first significant drop since ... read more

Savings, Investment, and the Current Account in the Lebanese economy

The ongoing Lebanese economic crisis has brought more to the fore the importance of the current account deficit in perpetuating the crisis. This is because, in the absence of sizable capital inflows to ... read more

This Time is Different

Preface “This time is different because the shock does not have a limited time span.” Six years after publishing this paper on May 31st 2013, Lebanon is facing its most severe financial and economic ... read more

Car Market Slump in 2019

Abstract The car market carries bigger indications than car sales and ownership. Analyzing the autos market, in a small economy like Lebanon especially in times of uncertainty reflects real sector ... read more

IMF Article IV Consultation for Lebanon 2019: Substantial Measures are still in need to reduce the exceptionally large domestic and external imbalances

Under Article IV of the IMF’s Articles of Agreement, the IMF holds bilateral discussions with members, usually every year. In the context of the 2019 Article IV consultation with Lebanon, the staff report ... read more

Getting Out of the Crisis: A Roadmap to Recovery

The question that everybody keeps on asking is: is there still a way out of the current crisis or are we going to fall into an abyss with an intense deterioration of all economic indicators that may lead ... read more

Lebanese Eurobonds and Equity in H2 2019

Abstract The paper analyses two national indices, the BLOM Bond Index and BLOM Stock Index. Both indices generated by BLOMInvest Bank are used by international news agencies, to assess the performance of ... read more

Lebanon Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Sector Performance in 2018

Lebanon’s pharmaceutical overall market size is considered to be small by regional – as well as global – standards, with a population of around 6M. Lebanon’s pharmaceutical market ... read more

Dissecting The Recent Economic Developments

A lot of rumors have been circulating lately regarding the economic situation in Lebanon. Every citizen, whether an economic expert or not, is worried about the liquidity in the system and is trying to ... read more

Rouba Chbeir
Spotlights on Lebanon
September 28, 2019

Performance of Alpha Banks in H1 2019

Current Environment The current economic slowdown is taking its toll on the performance of Alpha Banks which was published by Bankdata for H1 2019. The balance sheet of the 16 Alpha Banks with deposits ... read more

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