VAT Moves A Necessary Evil

February 2007 | Economic Analysis

BMI View: Concerns that increasing VAT will hurt economic growth, increase inflationary pressures and worsen political risk are justified. But with a debt pile of 189% of GDP and financing resting on economic reforms, Lebanon has little choice in the

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