After years of sharp economic deterioration, month of April brought a whiff of hope that the situation in Lebanon might change. The Lebanese Government reached a staff-level agreement with the IMF that ... read more
While the rest of the world moves beyond Coronavirus measures, Lebanon struggles to grapple with dual crises. Most nations began to overcome the standstill generated by the notorious pandemic. This is ... read more
Abstract Lebanon can no longer ‘pull a rabbit out of the hat’. The protests of October 2019 exposed enormous underlying fragilities. The events expedited a financial, economic, security and social crisis ... read more
Abstract There is no international framework or sovereign law today that forces any country to undergo a debt restructuring or resort to the IMF when in crisis. In fact, to-date there is no “bankruptcy” ... read more
The BLOM Stock Index (BSI) rose by a marginal 0.72% to end the week ending December 19th at 764.02 points. The BSE’s market capitalization rose from last week’s $7.44B to this week’s $7.47B. In turn, the ... read more
The BLOM Bond Index (BBI), a market value-weighted index that tracks the performance of the Lebanese government Euro bonds market excluding coupon payments, recorded a weekly down tick of 3.61% to end the ... read more
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
Abstract The study explores the macroeconomic indications of the Lebanese economy and therefore comes to update the findings of the similar report published in Sept. 2018 and to interpret the impact of ... read more
Abstract Lebanon’s fiscal performance weakened considerably in 2018. The country lost the primary surplus to a primary deficit and recorded a 10-year high fiscal deficit of $6.25B. The exacerbated fiscal ... read more
Abstract The purpose of this study is to present the now-popular 1,274 page McKinsey report in an illustrative, user-friendly, and shorter version that focuses on the key takeaways for Lebanon’s economy ... read more
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