Lebanon’s annual inflation rate decreased to 14.27% in July 2025, from 15.00% in June 2025 according to the Central Administration of Statistics (CAS). The average Read More
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Introduction The banking sector has suffered since late 2019 without serious measures taken from previous governments to start solving the banking crisis. Several Read More
In this spotlight, we will highlight the main issues discussed in the position paper “Advocating the Preservation of Deposits as Precondition for Read More
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
BLOM Lebanon PMI rose from 47.6 in March 2025 to 49 in April 2025, indicating that the Lebanese private sector business activity contracted at a softer Read More
The Council of Ministers (COM) approved on March 6, 2025 the 2025 budget by Decree. The budget foresees revenues and expenditures to be balanced at 445.2 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
Year X1 ∆X R1 ∆R YF1 ∆YF 2018 2952 1515 2386 2019 3731 779 1634 119 2454 68 2020 3544 -187 6705 5071 2399 -55 2021 3887 343 16821 10116 2674 275 2022 3492 -395 30313 13492 2916 242 2023 2995 -497 86362 56049 3108 192 Average2 3521 135 11398 7199 2566 133 X exports […]Read More
Lebanon’s annual inflation rate increased to 18.12% in December 2024, from 15.38% in November 2024, according to the Central Administration of Statistics (CAS). The average Read More
Year GDP ∆GDP M ∆M 2018 54.9 20 2019 51.6 -3.3 19.2 -0.8 2020 31.7 -19.9 11.3 -7.9 2021 23.1 -8.6 13.6 2.3 2022 21 -2.1 19.1 5.5 2023 20.1 -0.9 17.5 -1.6 Average* 36.3 -8.2 15.4 -3.1 * Excluding the outlier year 2022 The Lebanese Read More
