Détails

Lebanon's Economic Crisis: Expectations & Potential Solutions

In this session we will discuss:

• Lebanon’s economic crisis: A tragedy in the making
• Why the country is in crisis?
• How did we get here? What is being done?
• Where do we go from here?
• Predicting how the crisis evolves from here is difficult: different scenarios.
• Ambition for a better future must guide the necessary adjustment
• Financial stabilization and structural adjustment will be challenging
• Solving complex intertwined problems/ calibrating policy instruments to Lebanese specifics.
• Structural adjustment in public finance
• Restructuration of the financial sector (banks / BDL)
• A consolidation of the banking sector is certainly needed.)- Outsourcing certain public services and privatizing assets
• Clarification of monetary strategy and bank oversight should help to restore confidence
• Exchange rate management
• Tasks of the next government (reforms, IMF, Negotiations with Bonds Holders, debt restructuring)
• Lebanon’s Economic Crisis Explodes, Threatening Decades of Prosperity
• Prolonged crisis of governance, bad planning, corruption …

Speaker: Maurice Matta, Head of the Economy Department at Annahar Newspaper and Media Group in Lebanon.

Moderator: Randa Farah, Founder & Manager of Lebtivity.com & I Have Learned Academy, University Instructor

Booking information

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