Lebanon hopes for new staff-level agreement with IMF

BEIRUT: Lebanon hopes for a new staff-level agreement with the International Monetary Fund, Finance ​Minister Yassine Jaber has said, adding that a full IMF program still required ‌Beirut to pass a final law to address losses from its financial crisis. Lebanon first signed a staff-level agreement with the IMF in April 2022, more than two years after its financial system imploded following decades of ​profligate spending and corruption in the ruling elite. But it was slow to implement ​the promis