At first glance Lebanon’s health sector reveals a multitude of apparent contradictions and anomalies. Generally speaking, the health sector is a monumental achievement, and boasts some of the highest-caliber medical …
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Farid el-Khazen Member of Parliament The voluntary [National Social Security Fund] is a scandal. The scheme has been discontinued and yet the fund has not [told members], so people still …
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While Dubai has gradually become the heart of the regional advertising industry, Beirut remains the main center for the production of television commercials and music videos. “Even at its peak, …
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The relative calm and secure political environment that prevailed in Lebanon in 2009, coupled with record tourist arrivals and the parliamentary elections, saw the country’s advertising sector record an estimated …
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Lebanon knows very little of the advances the telecommunications industry has experienced over the past decade in other Middle Eastern and North African countries. The sector is still wholly owned …
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Antoine Chamoun General manager, Bank of Beirut Invest The market is not greatly affected by politics, elections and all the events [relating to security]. Of course if the political situation …
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After the striking surge in demand and prices witnessed in the Lebanese real-estate market in 2008, the industry seems to have stabilized in 2009. Lebanese expatriates and Gulf nationals have …
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In 2009 the real estate industry in Lebanon witnessed another year of promising growth and continued to represent an integral part of the economy. Despite a slight drop in total …
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Ramzi Cortas Chairman and general manager, Cortas Cortas was founded in 1928 by current chairman and general manager Ramzi Cortas’ father, who was 15 years old during the famine in …
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The effects of the July 2006 war are still being felt by the country’s industries, and by export orientated businesses in particular. Nizar Raad, managing director of Universal Metal Products …