To the interest of anyone who is not a part of the political and banking power ensemble, an absurd theater of dance and song is being played out on the…
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“You can take it to the bank,” is an idiomatic expression commonly uttered by someone – usually a politician or manly man with business power – to express a very…
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For one thing, human constants have to be considered. When Walter Bagehot, the founding editor of The Economist, reflected on the role of the “English Political Economy” shortly before his…
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The dispatch from the general assembly of the United Nations (UN) was official. The officially hyphenated Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met with Mohammad Najib Azmi Mikati, President of the Council of…
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Lebanon is a wealthy country. In principle. It has all sorts of assets – land, water, industry, skilled workers and competitive professionals, a deep education system, touristic and cultural treasures, seasonal…
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Leveraging the abilities of Lebanon-based media in the digital age is a great regional opportunity for news organizations. Following on from the media action plan project, Executive sits with Alia…
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Desperate bid for a profitable future
On a sunny morning in spring 2022, confusion reigns for but a moment. Executive has an appointment to interview Imad Kreidieh, the chairman and general director (CDG) of state-owned enterprise…
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The secret of a viable capitalist approach to macroeconomics may lie less in redistributive intervention or stimulus of consumption but in aligning the private greed in productive ways with a…
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While the attention of economic actors, policy-makers, civil society activists, most analysts, and international advisors has been, firmly and necessarily, on the vast repercussions of the Lebanese currency crash, inflation,…
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A new report on the digital upside of MENA countries states that over the long run of more than the coming 20 years, “the socioeconomic upside of digitalizing the economy…
