2025-06-26
26 分钟This is Andrew Peach with World Business Report from the BBC.
Good to have you with us on the way the World Bank approves a quarter of a billion dollars for Lebanon to repair areas destroyed by Israeli forces.
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We start in Lebanon
though where the World Bank has approved 250 million dollars to rebuild infrastructure after the conflict between Israeli forces and Hezbollah.
The funds will help restore essential services and the sustainable management of rubble.
The bank had previously estimated the cost of reconstruction at 11 billion dollars.
Let's talk to the Lebanese economist Sami Nader about this.
It's a lot of money, but the size of the job is absolutely enormous.
Yeah, as you mentioned,
the size of the jobs is enormous because the amount of the destruction, I mean, accounts.
for billions of dollars, at least five billions of dollars,
but the move by the World Bank is significant
because it's symbolic and it says that the international community is ready to assist Lebanon and it is
because it has been a problem that financial assistance will not come if UN resolution,