Lebanon
Economy
Lebanon's fiscal position is likely to remain precarious through 2013, and we forecast the budget deficit narrowing only slightly to 9.8% of GDP, from an estimated 10.0% in 2012. With...
2013-03-25Economy
Lebanon was thrown into a renewed bout of turmoil in late March following the resignation of Prime Minister Najib Mikati, several months ahead of planned parliamentary elections. Mikati's...
2013-03-25Economy
The sharp narrowing seen in Lebanon's debt ratios since 2006 appears to have stalled, and is unlikely to gather momentum through 2014 at a time when economic growth remains fundamentally...
2013-03-15Economy
Tens of thousands of supporters of the Lebanese Shi’a group Hizbullah protested in Beirut on September 17 over an amateur anti-Islamic film made in the US. The chief of the...
2012-09-19Economy
Lebanon's budget is likely to head deeper into the red over the coming months, as elevated global energy prices necessitate an increase in fiscal transfers to the state energy firm,...
2012-09-19Economy
In a further indication of the deteriorating security environment inside Lebanon in recent weeks, in mid-August two people were killed and 60 wounded in clashes between Sunni Muslims...
2012-08-21Economy
BMI View: According to the Central Administration of Statistics, consumer price inflation in Lebanon came in at a 32-month low of 1.9% y-o-y in June, down from 2.9% and 3.5% in May...
2012-08-21Economy
Balance of payments dynamics across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) look set to remain under strain through H212. The external economic asymmetries of the region's net-oil importers...
2012-07-27



