Lebanese citizens see no relief as economic downturn worsens - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Hanan Hamdan

Hanan Hamdan

Dec 17, 2020

A man walks past a shop in the main commercial market at the Lebanese coastal city of Jounieh north of Beirut on December 01, 2020. - Lebanon's economy is sinking into a "deliberate depression", the World Bank said on December 1 in a damning report stressing the authorities' failure to tackle the crisis. Lebanon's economy started collapsing last year as a result of years of corrupt practices and mismanagement. The crisis was made worse by a nationwide wave of anti-government protests that paralysed the coun — A man walks past a shop in the main commercial market of the coastal city of Jounieh, north of Beirut, Lebanon, Dec. 01, 2020. — Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images

People arrive to receive food aid packages from workers, mask-clad due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic, at the Food Blessed NGO's centre in Lebanon's capital Beirut on July 28, 2020. - Amid Lebanon's worst economic crisis since the 1975-1990 civil war, food aid has become a lifeline even for the once relatively affluent middle class. Lebanon's economy has collapsed in recent months, with the local currency plummeting against the dollar, businesses closing en masse and poverty soaring at the same alarmi

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