Lebanon’s economy has been on a turbulent journey in recent years, with a triple crisis affecting its banking sector, economy, and currency. Israel’s recent war on the country only intensified the ...

Testament to the continued atrophy of Lebanon’s economy, the Lebanese Pound continues to depreciate sharply and to drive surging inflation, in triple digits since July 2020, impacting the poor and ...

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Jaber said the meeting with Ernesto Ramirez Rigo, the head of the IMF mission visiting Lebanon, was "good" and ... a draft funding deal with the IMF in 2022 - contingent on reforms that ...

"Lebanon's economy remains severely depressed, and poverty and unemployment are exceptionally ... including restructuring the banking sector, in order to unlock funding. In April 2022, Lebanon and the ...