Lebanon: Selected Issues
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Summary:
The Selected Issues paper of Lebanon provides an update of the vulnerability assessment based on the balance sheet approach. It explores the interest rate determination, the strength of the link to international interest rates, and exposure to international interest rate shocks, summarizes the methodology used to derive confidence intervals around the path of the debt ratio in the staff’s adjustment scenario, and provides an assessment of Lebanon’s competitiveness from a macroeconomic and microeconomic perspective, with a view to identify possible sources of competitiveness gains over the medium term.
Series:
Country Report No. 2006/200
Subject:
Central banks Competition Currencies Debt sustainability Deposit rates Exchange rate risk External debt Financial markets Financial services International reserves Money
English
Publication Date:
June 9, 2006
ISBN/ISSN:
9781451822687/1934-7685
Stock No:
1LBNEA2006001
Pages:
48
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