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in 2016-17 compared to 7 percent in 2015-16, weighed down by slower investment demand. Growth is projected to recover to … include implementation of the 2016 investment law, adoption of the companies act, and aligning customs procedures in valuation …
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upcoming midterm elections is likely to boost private consumption growth. Public investment growth is expected to be tempered … adopting policies to preserve consumer and business confidence. As the government continues to expand public investment to … investment to prevent an external funding gap. In the long term, in addition to sustained efforts to build human capital …
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pressures and providing room for an appropriately cautious monetary policy easing cycle. Growing investment flows, mostly linked … generated from the demand side of the economy, namely extractives-led investment and growing consumer demand, and less so from …
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inclusive Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth. Modest investment rates despite attractive returns and low savings rates despite … inclusive growth, with special emphasis on the issues of savings and investment …
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private investment rates. Remittances are likely to grow more slowly than the earlier trend over the last 5-6 years, but could … nonetheless be a major contributor to future growth if more go into private investment than in the past …
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. Non-extractive GDP growth reached 3.7 percent as investment growth accelerated, supported by a marked recovery in public … investment, and leading to a surge in imports. Private consumption remained dynamic, stimulated by growing public sector wages …. Continuing to strengthen data systems would support investment and public policymaking. In 2023 and 2024, digitalization efforts …
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Buffeted by COVID-19 and Tropical Cyclone Seroja, the non-oil economy grew by 1.5 percent in 2021. A record-high budget with expenditure of nearly 90 percent of GDP bolstered government consumption. A series of fiscal and quasi-fiscal stimulus measures supported employment and incomes, thereby...
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intention to increase the level of capital investment has neither been matched by similar ones to raise investments in human …
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The geo-economy presents Lebanon with challenges associated with being a nexus for regional fault lines and risks from its dependence on capital inflows. Despite markedly improved security conditions since the start of 2015, anxiety over regional turmoil and potential spillover effectspersist....
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