Still no date for crucial donor conference
By James Featherstone
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| The assassination in February 2005 of former prime minister Rafik Hariri seriously set back the Lebanese markets and wider economy |
A SENIOR INVESTMENT banker in Beirut is not sanguine about reform in Lebanon. “If you wanted to make all these reforms happen quickly and easily, you wouldn’t start from where we are now,” he says. Lebanon’s recent history being what it is, that is unarguable. But capital markets reform and economic improvement are both happening. The question is, are they happening fast enough and with sufficient consistency?
The most recent Lebanese sovereign bond issue, a $2.628 billion Eurobond in mid-April, seems to show that the answer to both questions is yes – or at least that foreign investors are prepared to be patient in the meantime. Despite the last-minute hiccup of two recalcitrant telecoms companies blowing open a festering...
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