2021. - 2025. g.
Nr. | Sadaļas nosaukums | Lpp. |
Introduction | 4 | |
How bad is Lebanon from macroeconomic standpoint? | 5 | |
Multiple exchange rates | 6 | |
Devaluation with a fixed exchange rate | 6 | |
Real exchange rate & the black-market rates | 8 | |
How to save the Lebanese pound | 9 | |
Tourism | 11 | |
2020 – the year of disasters | 12 | |
Covid crisis | 12 | |
Official default | 13 | |
Explosion of the Beirut’s port | 14 | |
Conclusion | 15 | |
Reference list | 16 |
The financial collapse of Lebanon happened a little more than 2 years ago but was the effect of a previously practiced Ponzi scheme. For three decades, the Lebanese financial system has been using money from debts to pay for everything. The system works until it doesn’t. When the government runs out of money and cannot take anymore debts, people are left to deal with it themselves. A simple mismanagement that costs not only money but also the lives of innocent people. (Blair, 2022)
Lebanon has been hit by a series of interconnected crises for over two years, first with an economic and financial crisis, then COVID-19, and finally the explosion at the Port of Beirut on August 4, 2020.…
The report aims to observe the snowball effect throughout the years that lead to one of the worst crises in history – the economy of Lebanon. Author will look through the effects on years of Ponzi scheme and how it affects the citizens of Lebanon. Multiple macroeconomic statistics such as foreign reserves, GDP, unemployment rate, government debt will be overlooked. They will be analysed for the way they changed in 2019, when the crisis escalated. The main private sector element – tourism will also be investigated – how did the macroeconomic statistics change in the field.
