Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 24

15-Jun-2009

LEBANON

Salamah On How Lebanon Weathered The Financial Crisis

Lebanon has been able to withstand the negative fallout of the current global financial crisis because of the model that we constructed and the accord that we had with the markets, Central Bank of Lebanon (CBL) Governor Riad Salamah said in an interview in Beirut with MEES Researcher Roueida el-Khazen.

The financial model, according to Dr Salamah, is based on the following principles:...