Monday 4 February 2019

The dire debt numbers facing Lebanon's new government | Reuters

The dire debt numbers facing Lebanon's new government | Reuters:

With fixed exchange rates and some of the world’s worst debt and balance-of-payment ratios, Lebanon’s newly-formed government knows it needs to act fast to avoid sinking into a full-blown economic crisis.

Lebanon’s ability to dodge financial disaster has for years confounded critics, whose warnings of debt defaults, balance of payments crises and a collapse of the pound currency, have all failed to materialise.

The hope is that it will stay that way, but as the charts below show the numbers are daunting.

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