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LEBANON. Key takeaway: Lebanon has made some progress toward financial inclusion, but non- banks have not yet been authorized to provide DFS, limiting innovation. Lebanon faces serious challenges to the expansion of DFS, foremost an economic crisis and high-cost mobile services. Total Population: 6.8 million (2018) Rural Population: 11% Mobile subscriber penetration Internet penetration 66% 78% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Lebanon has been in a state of economic emergency since September 2019. Until the past few years, the banking sector was a strong pillar of the Lebanese economy despite political and security instability. Lebanon has historically received substantial remittances from the expansive Lebanese diaspora (Xxxxxxx 2019). Lebanese workers in the Gulf contributed about one-fifth of Lebanon’s GDP and between 43 and 60 percent of remittances in 2015. However, remittances have been declining in the past few years, largely due to tensions between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. Remittances to Lebanon decreased by 7 percent in 2017 and are expected to stagnate or fall (Alami 2018). As the government accumulated debt, the banking sector expanded to 425 percent of the country’s GDP (Xxxxxxx 2019). Lebanon’s other main revenue-generating sectors, real estate and tourism, are also not faring well (Alami 2018). These declines, combined with decades of waste and poor governance in the public sector as well as tremendous debt and diminishing trust in the banking sector have led to a financial crisis, street protests, and the resignation of the Prime Minister in October 2019.
LEBANON. Key takeaway: Lebanon has made some progress toward financial inclusion, but non- banks have not yet been authorized to provide DFS, limiting innovation. Lebanon faces serious challenges to the expansion of DFS, foremost an economic crisis and high-cost mobile services. Total Population: 6.8 million (2018) Rural Population: 11% Account Ownership (2017) Mobile subscriber penetration Internet penetration 66% 78% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% Unbanked 55% Digital Payments Banked 45% Received or Made in the Last Year (2017) 45% Lebanon has been in a state of economic emergency since September 2019. Until the past few years, the banking sector was a strong pillar of the Lebanese economy despite political and security instability. Lebanon has historically received substantial remittances from the expansive Lebanese diaspora (Xxxxxxx 2019). Lebanese workers in the Gulf contributed about one-fifth of Lebanon’s GDP and between 43 and 60 percent of remittances in 2015. However, remittances have been declining in the past few years, largely due to tensions between Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. Remittances to Lebanon decreased by 7 percent in 2017 and are expected to stagnate or fall (Alami 2018). As the government accumulated debt, the banking sector expanded to 425 percent of the country’s GDP (Xxxxxxx 2019). Lebanon’s other main revenue-generating sectors, real estate and tourism, are also not faring well (Alami 2018). These declines, combined with decades of waste and poor governance in the public sector as well as tremendous debt and diminishing trust in the banking sector have led to a financial crisis, street protests, and the resignation of the Prime Minister in October 2019. Health sector overview In Lebanon, for-profit and nonprofit private health entities dominate the health care system. Primary, secondary, and tertiary care, including specialized and general medical services, are available through the private health sector. Most providers who practice in Lebanon and over 90 percent of laboratories and pharmacies are part of the private health sector. However, regulation of both private and public services through the Lebanese government is limited. The Ministry of Public Health plays a significant role in health care with contracting through both government and private facilities. Slightly under half of Lebanese citizens are covered by health insurance schemes, with the remaining uninsured citizens able to use services provided by the Ministry of Public Health. Th...
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LEBANON. Lebanon became eligible to CDM relatively late, since it ratified the Kyoto Protocol (Nov. 2006) and established the DNA (May 2007). The second national communication of Lebanon has estimated the overall emission reduction potential to 20 million tCO2e by year 2030, over the five major emitting sources (Energy, Industrial processes, Agriculture, Forestry and Waste). The energy sector is the most promising GHG mitigation source, as it contributes to 82% of this long term potential. Mitigation measures in the energy sector combine high potentials (led by the electrical sector with 68% of the overall mitigation potential and the transportation 11%) with much lower potential (buildings 2% and manufacturing industries 2%). The waste sector ranks second, contributing to 15% of the mitigation potential. It should however be noted that the mitigation assessment is incomplete, as it did not estimate emission reduction potential resulting from industrial processes and forestry measures. Measures related to Agriculture were also only partially identified and estimated. Furthermore, the energy sector measures were not fully identified and estimated. For instance, emission reduction potential from thermal insulation in existing buildings and fuel switching in manufacturing industries were not included in the estimate. In addition, a number of energy efficiency measures to be implemented in the short and medium terms were not included in the mitigation assessment. Among them, some significant projects identified by the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan (NEEAP) for Lebanon: • Energy efficiency for lighting: Compact Fluorescent Lamp (CFL) dissemination program, banning the Import of Incandescent Lamps, Efficient and Economic Public Street Lighting. • Solar Water Heaters for Buildings and Institutions. • Promotion of Energy Efficiency in Industry (Energy Auditing, Energy Services Company (ESCO) Business, etc.). • Promotion of Energy Efficient Equipment (e.g. Energy Labelling for electrical appliances, efficient motors for industries, etc.) When synthesizing the available information in Lebanon, covering the NEEAP and the projects that are identified as CDM ones, the potential mitigation options that could be achieved through short term options would add-up to 2 to
LEBANON. Lebanon in a small country on the Mediterranean sea, which is bordered by Syria to the East and North and Israel to the South. The current population is estimated to be 6,237,738 (CIA Factbook, 2016). Since the end of its 15-year civil war in 1990, Lebanon has been politically unstable. In 2011, the civil war in Syria started. There was a major influx of Syrian refugees especially in 2013, during which time over 1 million refugees entered the country (UNHCR, 2017). Lebanon does not allow refugee camps to be established; therefore, Syrian refugees that cannot afford to live in housing live in informal tented settlements across the country. The Lebanese National Tuberculosis Programme worried that the large number of refugees would cause an increase in the number of TB cases in Lebanon, similar to what has been found in other refugee contexts (Kimbrough, Saliba, Dahab, Haskew, & Xxxxxxx, 2012).
LEBANON. The Government of Lebanon has ratified the Instruments amending the Constitution and the Convention of the International Telecommunication Union (Minneapolis, 1998). The International Telecommunication Union confirms that the deposit of this instrument with the Secretary-General was registered on 1 April 2004. Instruments amending the Constitution and the Convention of the International Telecommunication Union Marrakesh, 2002
LEBANON. The Government of Lebanon has ratified the Final Acts of the World Radiocommunication Conference, Istanbul, 2000. The International Telecommunication Union confirms that the deposit of this instrument with the Secretary-General was registered on 1 April 2004. Special Agreement Federal Republic of Germany, Austria, Belgium, Republic of Croatia, France Repuplic of Hungary, Italy, Principality of Liechtenstein, Republic of Lithuania, Luxembourg, Kingdom of the Netherlands, Republic of Poland, Slovak Republic, Czech Republic, Romania, Republic of Slovenia, Confederation of Switzerland The attention of the Administrations is drawn to the fact that an Agreement was signed on 28 November 2003 in Berlin by the representatives of the above-mentioned Administrations, on the coordination of frequencies between 29,7 MHz and 39,5 GHz for the Fixed Service and the Land Mobile Service.
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