[https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/world/lebanon-crisis.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/04/world/lebanon-crisis.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage) >"The small Mediterranean country is in the throes of a financial crisis that the World Bank has said could rank among the world’s worst since the mid-1800s."