The Lebanon Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies over the 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. Lebanon continues to be …

The Lebanon Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies over the past six months. It … also presents findings from recent World Bank work on Lebanon. The political standoff combined with an escalating Syrian …, social and economic ties to Lebanon has created a humanitarian crisis of enormous scale. While Lebanon is to be commended for …

Lebanon faces serious challenges from a volatile security environment and spillovers from the ongoing Syrian conflict … tourism, a central contributor to economic growth and employment in Lebanon. The influx of Syrian refugees to Lebanon persists …, with officially registered refugees reaching close to 1 million (i.e., 21.6 percent of Lebanon’s pre-conflict population …

The Lebanon Economic Monitor provides an update on key economic developments and policies over the 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 …

in Lebanon. Nonetheless, the protracted Syrian conflict is markedly worsening the country's vulnerabilities and remains … an impediment to the return to potential growth. For the fifth year, Lebanon persists as the largest host (on a per …

The systemic failure of Lebanon's banking system and the collapse of the currency have resulted in a large, dollarized … the Cash Economy in Lebanon). A pervasive and growing dollarized cash economy is a major impediment to Lebanon's economic … transactions also threatens to completely reverse the progress that Lebanon made pre-crisis towards enhancing its financial …

In this study, Lebanon’s economy performed well during the global financial crisis. The banking sector has been …