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BEIRUT (AP) — Lebanon’s government met on the budget Monday for the first time in more than three months as talks with the International Monetary Fund about the country’s economic meltdown were poised to resume.

Lebanon’s government is holding its first meeting in three months to discuss the budget as talks with the International Monetary Fund over the country’s economic meltdown were poised to continue

The 2022 draft budget is expected to include tax increases in a country struggling to deal with soaring poverty levels and hyperinflation, also proposing deficit spending which critics charge will further hyperinflation

Lebanons government met on the budget Monday for the first time in more than three months as talks with the International Monetary Fund about the countrys economic meltdown resumed.

Who is filling the vacuum which the US is increasingly leaving behind in the MENA region? How are regional actors reacting to US disengagement?