Lebanon says talks on securing World Bank funding will wrap up in early 2022
Lebanon says talks on securing World Bank funding will wrap up in early 2022
Lebanon's energy minister said talks on securing funding from the World Bank to help the country's battered economy will wrap up in the first months of 2022.
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Lebanon's economic collapse has been described as one of the worst in the world in over 150 years [source: Getty]
Lebanon's energy minister said on Wednesday that talks on securing funding from the are progressing and will wrap up in the first months of 2022, according to a tweet from the prime minister's office.
Walid Fayad added, after a meeting with that an electricity deal could be signed with Jordan by the end of the year.Ìý
The Lebanese are facing a deteriorating economic crisis that began in late 2019 and is rooted in
The economic collapse has been in over 150 years. Inflation and prices of basic goods have skyrocketed in Lebanon, which imports more than 80 percentÌýof its basic goods.
Shortages of basic supplies, including fuel and medicine, and restrictions on bank withdrawals and transfers, particularly in foreign currency, have in the once middle-class country.
The crisis has since only been compounded by the pandemic, and a massive explosion at the port of Beirut in August 2020 which killed more than 216 people and injuredÌýthousands. It also destroyed major parts of the capital.Ìý
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