Lebanon : 2009 Article IV Consultation and Assessment of Performance Under the Program Supported by Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance: Staff Report; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Lebanon

The Lebanese financial system has so far weathered the global financial crisis. The 2009 Article IV Consultation highlights that deposit inflows decelerated briefly in the aftermath of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy, but have resumed at a rapid pace since then. Executive Directors have welcomed the...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: International Monetary Fund (Contributor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2009
Series:IMF Staff Country Reports ; Country Report No. 09/131
IMF Staff Country Reports; Country Report ; No. 2009/131
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Executive Summary; I. Introduction; II. Navigating the Crisis; III. Authorities' Policies for 2009; A. Maintaining a Strong Reserve Buffer in Times of Uncertainty; B. Containing the Government's Financing Needs and Reducing Debt; C. Strengthening the Banking Sector; IV. Medium-Term Plans to Tackle Vulnerabilities; V. Other Issues; VI. Staff Appraisal; Boxes; 1. Performance Under EPCA and Implementation of Past Fund Advice; 2. The Lebanese Banking Sector in the Face of the Global Crisis; 3. Remittances in Lebanon; 4. Lebanon and the GCC; 5. Deposit Growth
  • 6. Social Safety Nets in Lebanon7. Shock Scenarios for Debt Sustainability Analysis; Text Figures; International Reserves; Eurobond and Credit Default Swap Spreads; Commercial Bank Deposits; Deposit Dollarization and Interest Rate Spread; Government Debt and Fiscal Deficit; Contribution to Headline CPI Inflation; GDP Growth and Coincident Activity Indicator, 2005-08; Exchange Rate Developments; Government FX Debt Service; Text Tables; Real Exchange Rate Overvaluation Estimates Using CGER Approaches; Gross Financing Needs and Sources, 2008-09; Paris III Aid
  • 9. Indicators of Financial and External Vulnerability, 2006-0910. External Financing Requirements and Sources, 2006-10; 11. Indicators of Capacity to Repay the Fund, 2006-14; 12. Monitorable Actions, December 2008-June 2009; 13. Quantitative Indicative Targets Under the Program Supported by Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance, December 2008-June 2009; Contents; Annexes; I. Fund Relations; II. World Bank-IMF; III. Statistical Issues
  • Projected Yield from the Authorities' Fiscal Measures, 2010-14Figure; 1. Public Debt Sustainability, 2004-14; Tables; 1. Selected Economic Indicators, 2006-14; 2. Central Government Overall Deficit and Financing, 2006-14 (In billions of Lebanese pounds); 3. Central Government Overall Deficit and Financing, 2006-14 (In percent of GDP); 4. Government Debt, 2006-14; 5. Monetary Survey, 2006-09; 6. Balance of Payments, 2006-14; 7. Banking Sector Financial Soundness Indicators, 2006-08; 8. Public Sector Debt Sustainability Framework, 2006-14