Upwards Revision To Historic Data

BMI View: Lebanon spends an uncharacteristically large proportion of its national income on pharmaceuticals and healthcare. Like Greece in Europe, this statistical abnormality makes the country highly attractive to international drugmakers. BMI suspects that health tourism from across the region distorts the top line figures, possibly in a similar way to Jordan, but this will continue to help multinational drugmakers while the country's domestic pharmaceutical industry remains unable to

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