Title:
Lebanon’s Financial Markets Activities “97- 98 Challenges: Baiting the Bears “
Code:
TRAD/98/3
Author:
Data and Investment Consult - Ma’an Barazy - Rola Chbaklo
Page Numbers:
216
Summary:
Preface
International Capital Markets and Economic Development in the Arab Countries: A Quiet Revolution is required
Chapter 1: Introduction
1. How can financial markets help?
2. The Lebanese environment
Chapter 2: Micro and Macro Economic Trends
1. Micro Considerations
2. Budget 1998
Chapter 3: Positioning the Lebanese economy
1. The cause of the Economic Backwardness in the Arab Region
2. The Economic Performance of Lebanon
3. Public Debt, Consolidated Balance Sheet
Chapter 4: The Growth Factors
1.Investment and Saving
2.Structural Reforms
Chapter 5: The Givens and Challenges for Integration
1. Global Financial Adjustments after Introduction of Euro
2. Consideration and Restructuring of European Banking Systems
3. Development and Prospects for the Emerging Markets
Chapter 6: New Funding Alternatives: The Financial Markets
1. The Growth of the Financial Markets
2. The Need for a Large Liquidity
3. Measuring for a Large Liquidity base
4. How Can Financial Intermediaries Help Promote the Market?
Chapter 7: Development in the Banking Sector
1. Banking in 1996
2. Developments in the Capital Markets
Chapter 8: Re-evaluating the Scenarios
Chapter 9: Issues in the Market
Chapter 10: Conclusion
Year:
1998
Sub-Sector:
Trade