Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2016 : The Big Swap - Dollars for Trust

The Lebanon Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies overthe past six months. It also presents findings from recent World Bank work on Lebanon. It places them in a longer-term and global context, and assesses th...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Report
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2016
Subjects:	economic growth poverty fiscal policy trade monetary policy debt markets central bank intervention SME
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/560211478178124830/Lebanon-Economic-Monitor-The-big-swap-dollars-for-trust http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25356

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spelling	okr-10986-253562021-05-25T09:53:12Z Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2016 : The Big Swap - Dollars for Trust World Bank economic growth poverty fiscal policy trade monetary policy debt markets central bank intervention SME The Lebanon Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies overthe past six months. It also presents findings from recent World Bank work on Lebanon. It places them in a longer-term and global context, and assesses the implications of these developments and other changes in policy on the outlook for Lebanon. Its coverage ranges from the macro-economy tofinancial markets to indicators of human welfare and development. As the political stalemate continues, policy-making bodies of the country are mostly inoperative. This is manifested by a presidential vacancy for two and a half years, a parliament that seldom convenes and a cabinet that hardly finds a consensus to take decisions. Amid fiscal policy paralysis, monetary policy under the proactive Banque du Liban (BdL) continues to actively manage economic and financial challenges facing the country. Economic activity in 2016 is marginally picking up, thanks to the construction and travel sectors in the context of benign security conditions. Real GDP growth is estimated to have reached 1.3 percent in 2015 and is projected to accelerate slightly to 1.8 percent, in 2016, partly on account of a moderate first half of 2016. 2016-11-16T20:58:13Z 2016-11-16T20:58:13Z 2016-11 Report http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/560211478178124830/Lebanon-Economic-Monitor-The-big-swap-dollars-for-trust http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25356 English en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: Economic Updates and Modeling Economic & Sector Work Middle East and North Africa Lebanon
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description	The Lebanon Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies overthe past six months. It also presents findings from recent World Bank work on Lebanon. It places them in a longer-term and global context, and assesses the implications of these developments and other changes in policy on the outlook for Lebanon. Its coverage ranges from the macro-economy tofinancial markets to indicators of human welfare and development. As the political stalemate continues, policy-making bodies of the country are mostly inoperative. This is manifested by a presidential vacancy for two and a half years, a parliament that seldom convenes and a cabinet that hardly finds a consensus to take decisions. Amid fiscal policy paralysis, monetary policy under the proactive Banque du Liban (BdL) continues to actively manage economic and financial challenges facing the country. Economic activity in 2016 is marginally picking up, thanks to the construction and travel sectors in the context of benign security conditions. Real GDP growth is estimated to have reached 1.3 percent in 2015 and is projected to accelerate slightly to 1.8 percent, in 2016, partly on account of a moderate first half of 2016.
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title	Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2016 : The Big Swap - Dollars for Trust
title_short	Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2016 : The Big Swap - Dollars for Trust
title_full	Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2016 : The Big Swap - Dollars for Trust
title_fullStr	Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2016 : The Big Swap - Dollars for Trust
title_full_unstemmed	Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2016 : The Big Swap - Dollars for Trust
title_sort	lebanon economic monitor, fall 2016 : the big swap - dollars for trust
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2016
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Lebanon Economic Monitor, Fall 2016 : The Big Swap - Dollars for Trust

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