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Poverty in Lebanon refers to a variety of situations. First, it refers to individuals and households who live below the poverty threshold , set as a money-metric measurement. This approach is the most basic and universal measure of poverty.
Poverty in Lebanon tripled over the course of a decade during which the small Mediterranean country slid into a protracted financial crisis, the World Bank said Thursday. The percentage of people ...
Lebanon is one of the only seven countries in the world in which the value of the stock market increased in 2008. [48] The Lebanese economy experienced continued resilience, growing 8.5 percent in 2008, 7 percent in 2009 and 8.8% in 2010. However, Lebanon's debt to GDP ratio remained one of the highest in the world. [49]
According to World Bank, "Poverty headcount ratio at a defined value a day is the percentage of the population living on less than that value a day at 2017 purchasing power adjusted prices. As a result of revisions in PPP exchange rates, poverty rates for individual countries cannot be compared with poverty rates reported in earlier editions."
Lebanon endorsed the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and also the SDGs in September 2015. [6] In 2015, there was a global call to advance leadership attention on poverty, inequality, and the climate change crisis. For this to happen, on 25 September 2015 world leaders assembled at the United Nations headquarters in New York, to adopt ...
Hundreds of protesters in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli clashed with troops until late Tuesday night leaving several injured on both sides in some of the most serious riots triggered by an ...
STORY: Tripoli. A city where Lebanon’s richest politicians live – and the poorest residents once again mourn their dead.Among them, taxi driver Mustafa Misto, and his three young children.
Around 175,555 Palestinian refugees were registered in Lebanon with the UNRWA in 2014, who are refugees or descendants of refugees from the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Some 53% live in 12 Palestine refugee camps, who "suffer from serious problems" such as poverty and overcrowding. [39]