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Lebanon and devaluation: a bitter medicine?

Pressure is growing on Lebanon’s dollar peg and, in the event of a devaluation, the pound could fall by as much as 50% against the dollar. A messy sovereign default and a deep recession would follow. But over a longer horizon, a more competitive currency is part of the solution to the economy’s poor performance over the past decade.

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