The Spring 2023 issue of the Lebanon Economic Monitor (LEM) titled "" provides an update of recent economic developments and assesses the economic outlook and risks within a continuous context of uncertainty and a political stalemate. It examines the continuous decline in the Lebanese economy amidst a normalization of the state of the crisis, markedly distant from a stabilization path, let alone a recovery path.
The LEM Spring 2023 Special Focus section titled “Gauging the size of the Cash Economy in Lebanon” examines the growing dollarized cash-based economy and its impact on the effectiveness of fiscal and monetary policy and on the recovery prospects.
- (Full Report in a PDF Format)
- Annex: (in a PDF Format)