Lebanon may be a small country, but never let it be said that its dreamers don’t think big. Should it score the investment to become a reality, entrepreneur Ralph Debbas’…
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Jacques Sarraf is something of a godfather in Lebanese industry. The former head of the Lebanese Association of Industrialists runs Malia Group, which has 1,608 staff across the region —…
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Neemat Frem is the president of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists and chief executive officer at INDEVCO Group. He spoke to Executive about a forthcoming industrial park, optimism for 2014…
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The climate for Lebanese industrialists is perhaps the toughest it has been since the Civil War. A combination of geopolitical turmoil, challenging economic conditions and a lack of political support…
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Martin Skancke is among the world’s leading consultants on the resource curse, commonly called ‘Dutch Disease’, wherein countries that discover oil and gas subsequently see a loss of competitiveness in…
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Gebran Bassil became Lebanon’s minister of energy and water in 2011. Since then, the country has made huge strides toward extracting its offshore oil and gas, but last month those…
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Lebanese politicians are the least trustworthy in the world, or so its people think — in last month’s World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report the country scored 148th out of…
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A “minor delay” is how he put it. In the weeks before the September 2 deadline for the Cabinet to meet and ensure the bidding process over the rights to…
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One impact a serious delay to Lebanon’s oil and gas bids may have is to exacerbate a trend of the country falling behind its regional neighbors. In the early stages,…
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If Lebanese industrialists are seeking a quantum of solace, it is that those around them are in a worse position. From tourism, to retail, to construction, many of Lebanon’s businessmen…
