The only things that are growing fast are bouts of desperation and the holes in people’s pockets. At least that’s the popular impression of the Lebanese crisis, one that can…
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Economic rescue
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Cover storyEconomic rescueEconomics & Policy
Analytical approaches to economic rescue plans for Lebanon
Lebanon’s political economy today is in a situation where risks are existential and inaction opens the gates to disaster, but potential payoffs are highly skewed to the upside—if successful. This…
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Cover storyEconomic rescueEconomics & Policy
Experts tackle Lebanon’s dilemmas with a plethora of rescue plans
IN BRIEF The implications of Lebanon’s current fiscal crisis are grave, but not fated to be devastating. Economic rescue plans circulating remain in the pro-private and neo-liberal economic modes of…