Make it or break it

With Lebanon’s economy stuck in a rut, only limited options remain available to support the country’s struggling manufacturing sector. Executive sat down with the person at the helm of the sector for an update on industrial and agricultural developments – Minister of Industry Hussein Hajj Hassan, whose long political career as a parliamentarian includes chairmanship of the agriculture and tourism committee, and he was a former minister of agriculture. E   What can you tell us about the performance of the manufacturing sector in 2015? Certainly it was not a good year with the war here in our region – in Syria, Iraq and Yemen. The economic crisis, the price of petroleum per barrel and the instability in the whole region led to a period of instability in the economy and in politics. So in this context I think it was a good year. E   Have manufacturers and industrialists