August / September
EDITORIAL
LEADERS
Lebanon: a study in
interconnectedness
Financial safety is intrinsically
tied to social stability and
security
Executive Editors
SPECIAL REPORT: FINANCIAL SAFETY
A laboratory to study
financial challenges
Contradictory signs in
Lebanon’s financial forecast
Thomas Schellen
Who’s to blame?
Pointing the finger at costs,
beneficias and tolls of
financial mismanagement
Rouba Bou Khzam
ECONOMICS & POLICY
Beyond the “muddlethrough” option
Taxation cannot be left on
autopilot
Lamia Moubayed Bissat and Sabine Hatem and Iskandar Boustany