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Lebanon Economy and Finance: Country Reports

This guide provides resources and reports about the contemporary financial and economic status in Lebanon.

Country Reports

ESCWA Realities and Prospects: Survey of Economic and Social Developments in the Arab Region 2020-2021

Lebanon Economic Monitor: So When Gravity Beckons, the Poor Don't Fall
The World Bank- Fall 2019
The Economist Intelligence Unit Country Report: Lebanon
November 2019
Extend and Pretend: Lebanon’s Financial House of Cards
From Triangle’s working paper series ‘Who Will Foot the Bill?,’ (thinktriangle.net)
What’s Next for Lebanon? Examining the Implications of Current Protests
Report by The Washington Institute for Near East Policy by Hanin Ghaddar Friedmann
Lebanon's October 17: A Revolution with a Pinch of Salt
By LEBANON-in-CONFLICT
Lebanon Economic Monitor: De-Risking Lebanon
The World Bank – Fall 2018
Global Practice for Macroeconomics, Trade & Investment Middle East and North Africa Region
Economy Profile of Lebanon: Doing Business 2019
The World Bank- Doing Business 2019 Flagship Report
Priority Reforms for the Government of Lebanon
The World Bank Policy Paper
Lebanon Seeks Foreign Aid to Support Its WarRattled Economy; Officials estimate mass refugee influx from Syria has cost Lebanon billions of dollars
The Wall Street Journal
Constructing Resilience: Real Estate Investment, Sovereign Debt and Lebanon's Transnational Political Economy
by Julia Tierney, Doctoral of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley
Lebanon economy: Government restructuring plans take shape
EIU ViewsWire
Lebanon- Assessing recovery value
Bank of America- Merrill Lynch, GEMs Paper
Urban Inequalities and Poverty in Lebanon : What can be learned from the social market economy?
Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, 2016
Lebanon: Promoting Poverty Reduction and Shared Prosperity
The World Bank
LEBANON SME STRATEGY A ROADMAP TO 2020
UNDP and Ministry of Economy and Trade
Snapshot of Poverty and Labor Market Outcomes in Lebanon based on Household Budget Survey 2011/20121
Central Administration for Statistics and World Bank
OECD Case-studies-Lebanon-and-Libya
MENA-OECD ECONOMIC RESILIENCE TASK FORCE

For an Emergency Economic Rescue Plan for Lebanon
An analysis by the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies
Banking sector 2020 overview
Executive
Timeline: Lebanon's ordeal - Economic and political crises since civil war
By Thomson Reuters
Lebanon's Economy to Face a Turbulent 2019
Al-Bawaba
For An Emergency Economic Rescue Plan For Lebanon
Carnegie Middle East Center
Real estate transactions up 63 percent in 2020
The Daily Star
MEA banking stories to watch in 2021: Green financing, Lebanon, Kenya
S&P Global
Lebanese banks post record losses amid warning that worse may be to come
Arabian Business

Featured: Lebanon-assessing recovery value, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Lebanon- Assessing recovery value
Bank of America- Merrill Lynch, GEMs Paper

Featured: The Lebanon Crisis Response Plan

UN: The Lebanon Crisis Response Plan
Including 2018 update

Featured: The Economist Intelligence Unit Country Report: Lebanon (Nov., 2019)

The Economist Intelligence Unit Country Report: Lebanon (Nov., 2019)

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