Is Lebanon’s central bank putting the dollar peg at risk?

The Lebanese authorities have suggested that they will soon undertake another “financial engineering” exercise in an effort to boost the central banks’ FX reserves and reduce the government’s debt servicing costs. In this Watch, we explain the process and argue that it adds to the risks surrounding the sustainability of the county’s dollar peg.

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