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LEBANON: Economic recovery hopes ignore major risks
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES285013
ISSN: 2633-304X
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Israel’s war with Hamas is taking a growing toll on the economy mainly due to labour shortages. The economy has recovered quickly from previous short wars, but this conflict…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB283437
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Like other fuel-importing countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), it has large structural fiscal and current account deficits. These have resulted in climbing…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB282177
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MIDDLE EAST: Tourism slump will hit economic outlook
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES282935
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A cabinet meeting yesterday to discuss a replacement failed to achieve quorum, as key political forces boycotted it. The first deputy governor, who succeeds by default, has…
LEBANON: Financial crimes may proliferate
It highlighted how the severe, three-year crisis has been deepened by “a failure to take much needed policy action” and “resistance from vested interests to reforms”. It also…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB280185
ISSN: 2633-304X
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LEBANON: Elites will resist economic policy decisions
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES280706
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LEBANON: Economic distortions have social costs