Speaking a day after the UN and World Bank announced plans to increase lending to help the region deal with the catastrophic spillover of conflicts in Syria and beyond, the director general of the Lebanese finance ministry, Alain Bifani, said the aid should instead be interest-free."The support has to be through grants. It cannot be loans," Bifani told AFP on the sidelines of the World Bank and IMF annual meetings in Lima, Peru.
Source: Albawaba
Full Article: Middle East needs grants, not loans for refugee crisis: Lebanon
