Lebanon’s economic crisis forces soldiers to desert or take on second jobs
[ad_1] Issued on: 12/04/2023 – 11:55 Lebanon’s economic meltdown has plunged most of the population into poverty. It’s now also threatening the country’s security. As...
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Poverty on the rise in Lebanon amid deep economic crisis
[ad_1] Issued on: 30/03/2023 – 11:52 05:02 FOCUS © FRANCE 24 Lebanon has been drowning in a series of crises since 2019. The economic, banking...
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Small businesses in Lebanon struggle to stay afloat amid lira’s endless fall
[ad_1] Lebanon’s ongoing economic crisis has left countless individuals and businesses to adapt to the harsh realities of the collapsing economy. FRANCE 24 met with...
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Lebanon in ‘very dangerous situation’ with reforms stalled, IMF warns
[ad_1] Issued on: 23/03/2023 – 16:55 The International Monetary Fund warned on Thursday that Lebanon was in a very dangerous situation a year after it...
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SOS diaspora: How Lebanese abroad help their country survive crisis
[ad_1] Issued on: 03/03/2023 – 13:34Modified: 03/03/2023 – 13:45 As their country sinks deeper into a financial crisis, more Lebanese people depend on money sent by...
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Lebanon's economic situation 'uniquely devastating', Egypt's 'potentially manageable'
[ad_1] The economic situations in Lebanon and Egypt are both dire, but for now the ramifications are more manageable in Egypt. That’s the view of...
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Rising poverty and hunger in Lebanon: The fight against malnutrition for low-income families
[ad_1] Issued on: 22/02/2023 – 12:45 Protesters smashed windows of banks in the Lebanese capital Beirut this past week as the currency hit a new low...
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Thousands of Tunisian protesters demand President Saied removal after ‘coup’
[ad_1] Issued on: 15/10/2022 – 19:27 Thousands of Tunisians demonstrated Saturday in the capital Tunis, denouncing a power grab by President Kais Saied and demanding...
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Ex-Fed chief Bernanke among US trio to win Nobel prize in economics
[ad_1] Issued on: 10/10/2022 – 11:53 Former Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke along with Douglas Diamond and Philip Dybvig won the 2022 Nobel Economics Prize “for research...
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Fleeing Lebanon to escape poverty: At least 100 die in migrant shipwreck
[ad_1] Issued on: 05/10/2022 – 15:03 Three years into Lebanon’s devastating financial collapse, some 80 percent of the population is now living below the poverty...
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Citizens rob banks for own savings: Lebanon’s economic crisis leads to desperate measures
[ad_1] Issued on: 21/09/2022 – 12:15 In Lebanon, most depositors have been locked out of their savings since a financial crisis took hold three years...
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Lebanese woman holds up bank at gunpoint to access frozen savings
[ad_1] Issued on: 15/09/2022 – 01:03 Two seemingly armed and desperate Lebanese depositors held up banks on Wednesday to force access to their own money,...