Lebanon’s budget deficit for 2019 is equivalent to 11.4 percent of GDP, the country’s Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad said on Tuesday.
Lebanese officials had projected a budget deficit for 2019 of less than 9 percent of GDP but later said the figure would likely end up higher because of the country's deep economic crisis.
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