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How Lebanon’s economy collapsed

Protests, power cuts and bank hold-ups – Lebanon was already struggling before the 2020 port explosion devasted its capital, Beirut, but now it’s in a desperate economic collapse.

Protests, power cuts and bank hold-ups – Lebanon was already struggling before the 2020 port explosion that devasted its capital, Beirut, but now it’s in a desperate economic collapse. The Lebanese people are struggling to buy basic food and medicine. And the country also hosts the highest number of refugees per capita worldwide. ´óÏó´«Ã½ correspondent in Beirut, Carine Torbey, tells us how Lebanon got here and how it might recover.
Presenter: Claire Graham. Producer: Owen McFadden.

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