When Riad Salameh, the governor of Banque du Liban (BDL), Lebanon’s central bank, announced in November $800 million for a new stimulus package to help the economy grow in 2014…
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In mid-December, the United Nations made another international appeal for Syria, the sixth since the country’s three-year civil war began. The numbers were staggering – a total of $6.5 billion…
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A completely new future for Lebanon’s water network; taking the sector out of the control of feuding politicians and into the realm of citizen control. Well at least that’s how…
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“That law has been approved in the Cabinet and I met with [Speaker] Nabih Berri and he promised me it will be in the first parliamentary meeting. That law will…
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“There is no way to be loyal to Lebanon and protect it other than through dialogue that opens the way to the formation of a salvation government that represents all…
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There were very few positives for the Lebanese economy in 2013, but the industrial sector was perhaps one of them. If 2011 and 2012 were years of crisis — with…
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By his own admission, caretaker Minister of Economy and Trade Nicolas Nahas has had a frustrating year — as a member of a resigned government, unable to implement policy, but…
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Vrej Sabounjian is perhaps the most positive person in Lebanon. Despite worsening security conditions, a refugee influx and a stagnant economy the country’s caretaker minister of industry is convinced that…
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Lebanon’s progress towards extracting its offshore oil and gas in 2013 could perhaps be summed up by a version of the somewhat hackneyed phrase ‘one step forward and one (possibly…
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In discussions of the economy in 2013, one word is ubiquitous — Syria. Lebanon, as the feuding state’s smallest neighbor and the one with the largest number of refugees, has…
