Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan issued a research on social conditions in the period between 2017 and 2024 . It said the period marks a tumultuous phase for Lebanon’s social protection system, characterized by macroeconomic instability, currency collapse, and rising poverty. The report by the Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan published in July 2025 highlights critical insights into government spending on social protection, revealing systemic inefficiencies and structural imbalances that worsened during the crisis.By 2024, social protection constituted 42% of the total budget compared to just 27% in 2017.
However, this growth was primarily driven by allocations to social health protection, overshadowing other components such as social assistance. This skewed allocation pattern highlights the limited diversification within Lebanon’s social protection system, with health-related spending dominating
overall priorities.
Despite rising allocations, actual spending as a share of GDP declined sharply. Social protection expenditures (excluding health) dropped from 8–10% of GDP in 2017–2019 to 1% in 2023, while social health protection similarly fell from 3% to nearly negligible levels. These figures indicate a collapse in the state’s capacity to fund and execute social protection measures amid the economic
crisis, severely compromising their adequacy and impact.
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