The International Monetary Fund informed caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni that the fund was willing to commit $3 billion to $4 billion to any new Cabinet that is committed to economic reforms, a source at the Finance Ministry revealed Sunday.
Lebanon's former top finance civil servant.Alain Bifani accuses ‘dirty money elite’ of protecting vested interests as economy collapses
Retired military officers on Thursday staged a sit-in in front of the Finance Ministry’s revenues department for the second day in a row, also preventing employees from entering the building as part of their protests against the 2019 draft austerity budget which includes items that cut their pensions and end-of-service benefits.
