Lebanon’s Budget Deficit Widens 4% in First 10 Months

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Lebanon’s budget deficit widened 4 percent in the first 10 months of the year as debt payments increased.

The deficit widened to 3.78 trillion Lebanese pounds ($2.5 billion) from 3.63 trillion pounds in the same period last year, the Ministry of Finance said in an e-mailed report today.