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“Policy responses by Lebanon’s leadership to these challenges have been highly inadequate,” the report said.
Lebanon’s ruling class has failed to act on the country’s worst emergency in a generation, which was compounded by the coronavirus pandemic and a devastating explosion at Beirut port last August.
This picture shows the grain silos at Beirut port, almost a year after the August 4 massive explosion that killed more than 200 people and injured scores of others, on May 27, 2021. (Joseph EID / AFP)
The International Monetary Fund has offered assistance but the country’s political barons have failed to even form a government that could deliver the reforms on which foreign aid is conditioned.