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LEBANON: Politics will inhibit IMF-sought reforms
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES287212
ISSN: 2633-304X
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LEBANON: Economic recovery hopes ignore major risks
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES285013
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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…
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
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The move has resulted in official rates depreciating sharply and converging with the parallel market rate; the spread has narrowed to just 16%. The change in policy means that the…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB281160
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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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EGYPT: Elections will postpone economic reforms
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES282214
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LEBANON: Political and economic crises will worsen
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES272544
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LEBANON: Elites will ignore the financial freefall
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-ES276047
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LEBANON: Politics could delay currency devaluation