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Lebanon’s crisis goes from really bad to even worse

Lebanon’s government has made little progress with its economic rescue plan and there’s a growing likelihood that the sovereign debt and currency crises already underway will ultimately lead to series of bank failures. We already expected the economy to contract by around 12% this year, but the risks are increasingly skewed towards an even steeper downturn.

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