VIDEO-6min22-Lebanon in crisis: Beirut blast adds to country's economic challenges - People & Profit
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Issued on: 03/09/2020 - 15:56
Though Lebanon flourished in the 1960s, its history has largely been a succession of political crises punctuated by rounds of violence. Now its worst economic crisis in decades has doubled poverty to more than half the population. © Joseph Eid, AFP/File
A month after the devastating explosion at Beirut's port, we speak to the World Bank about the financial help Lebanon needs. Also in this programme: who wants to head up the World Trade Organization? The global body needs a new chief to steer it out of its current crisis. And a different kind of Brexit: meet the British farmers moving to northern France in search of a better income from agriculture.
- Ferid BELHAJ , Vice-President, MENA region, World Bank Group