Lebanon Public Finance Review

World Bank

collection.link.130	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/5995
collection.link.131	https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/5996
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collection.name.77	Other Financial Sector Study
dc.contributor.author	World Bank
dc.date.accessioned	2022-08-03T15:12:00Z
dc.date.available	2022-08-03T15:12:00Z
dc.date.issued	2022-07
dc.date.lastModified	2022-08-31T18:22:17Z
dc.description.abstract	The Public Finance Review (PFR) analyzes Lebanon’s public finances over a long horizon, to understand the roots of the fiscal profligacy and its eventual insolvency. To do so, the PFR links three critical elements in three Sections. Section I: Fiscal Policy in the Second Republic; Section II: Macro-Financial Restructuring; Section III: Public Service Non-Delivery. A fourth critical element is geopolitics, which is beyond the scope of the PFR. Taken together, these form critical determinants of the outcomes for any future socio-political-economic re-configuration.	en
dc.identifier	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099105008022213843/P1733451f74154311fb4a149871a9041d2b545b62921
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/37824
dc.language	English
dc.language.iso	en_US
dc.publisher	Washington, DC
dc.rights	CC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holder	World Bank
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subject	FISCAL POLICY
dc.subject	FISCAL BENCHMARKING
dc.subject	QUASI-FISCAL
dc.subject	MICRO-FINANCIAL RESTRUCTURING
dc.subject	PUBLIC SERVICE NON-DELIVERY
dc.title	Lebanon Public Finance Review	en
dc.title.subtitle	Ponzi Finance?	en
dc.type	Report	en
okr.date.disclosure	2022-08-02
okr.date.lastmodified	2022-08-02T00:00:00Z	en
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work
okr.doctype	Economic & Sector Work :: Other Financial Sector Study
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okr.region.administrative	Middle East and North Africa
okr.region.country	Lebanon
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth :: Economic Growth
okr.topic	Macroeconomics and Economic Growth :: Fiscal & Monetary Policy
okr.unit	EFI-MNA-MTI-MacroFiscal (EMNMT)

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