This was also stated by the Lebanese Foreign Minister, who submitted his resignation because of what he described as the lack of will to achieve the reform that the Lebanese and the international community are demanding.
The Monday (3/8/2020) episode of the "For the rest of the story" program monitored the country's rapid economic collapse, as well as the sharp decline in gross domestic product, reaching 12% below zero and the high unemployment rate.
The national currency lost more than 80% of its value against the dollar, and the Lebanese purchasing power has eroded, and organizations are talking about shocking facts, including the fact that about a million people in Beirut alone do not have enough money to secure their strength. It warns of convoys of children threatened with starvation in Lebanon before the end of 2020.
Under pressure from the protests, the government took measures to support the poor, and to counteract the currency's decline against the dollar; Lebanon is witnessing a great difference between the social classes, which reflects the gap between the wealthy elites and the general public in most Arab countries. However, the depth of the gap in Lebanon has become alarming internally and externally.
It ranks fifth in the world on the scale of "inequality" in income among its citizens, with 10% of the Lebanese enjoy more than half of the national income, and 70% of the country's wealth, while corruption is eating away at its institutions.
The young Mustafa tells his story to the program and says that the most that he wants today is to get out of the country, and Mustafa's condition is not different from others, so migration has always been the dream of many Lebanese, so that Lebanon becomes the country with the highest percentage of immigration in the world in terms of population.