LEBANON CLOTHING SECTOR STRUGGLES TO RECOVER FROM ISRAEL-HIZBULLAH WAR
October 1st, 2006
BY PAUL COCHRANE, in Beirut
LEBANON'S clothing sector - manufacturing and retail - was crippled by the month long war between Israel and Hizbullah, and the knock-on effects of the conflict have proved equally problematic for a sector that was just recovering from a slump caused by political turbulence in 2005.
Clothing manufacturers and retailers had high expectations for this summer with a projected 1.6 million tourists expected to visit Lebanon and the economy picking up after a sluggish 2005 that was marred by a spate of bombings that began with the ...
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