Foreign investment in the more productive sectors of the region’s economy may be put at risk by skills shortages driven by high levels of migration.more >
Beirut’s banks are in the eye of a storm. In and around the city centre, the epicentre of a months-long protest over economic mismanagement, some branches have been daubed with graffiti, others have had their windows and ATMs smashed. They are so short of hard currency that informal capital controls have been imposed, infuriating customers desperate for dollars.
