Diaspora as a state of mental allegiance Viewing the cityscape of Beirut’s Achrafieh district is like an invitation to rethink the meaning and the importance of the Lebanese diaspora, in…
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Banking & FinanceBanking & InsuranceBusinessDevelopmentFinanceQ&AQ&A
Lebanon’s Last Chance to Preserve and Create Jobs, is Now
In the context of Lebanon’s existential crisis, Executive inquired about the country’s new economic and social barriers – a mountain of problems formed around a nexus of ginormous poverty, towering…
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Anti-corruptionJudiciaryOpinionQ&ASpecial Report
Q&A with legal expert Paul Morcos on judicial capacity and accountability
They are somewhat remote issues from the perspective of daily survival in the summer of 2020. But the questions of financial accountability and judicial processing of the complex aspects of…
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Banking & FinanceEconomics & PolicyOpinionQ&A
Q&A with economist Freddie Baz on Lebanon’s economic survival
In discussing Lebanon’s economic survival, some local opinion makers and economists have been making nothing but dire predictions since the fourth quarter of 2019. Executive wanted to take the perspective…
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Moving counter-cyclically to conventional business wisdom and exhibiting disregard for old boundaries are attributes of enterprising minds, of those daring people who start pursuing an economic opportunity without regard for…
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Coronavirus CloseupEntrepreneurshipQ&A
Q&A with Smart ESA’s Jihad Bitar on upcoming hackathon and future plans for the accelerator
The middle of 2020 is seeing three virtual hackathons—the first that are being staged in Lebanon in the space of just two weeks, from June 27 until July 10. Organized…
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Economic rescueEconomics & PolicyEntrepreneurship
Teams in MIT hackathon give Lebanon’s virtual salvation their best try
The only things that are growing fast are bouts of desperation and the holes in people’s pockets. At least that’s the popular impression of the Lebanese crisis, one that can…
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AnalysisBanking & FinanceOpinionQ&ASpecial Report
Questions on data, policy design, and usefulness of assumptions
Economic man is a curious construct. Once thought to be a being superior to the common human in his pursuit of value creation and profit generation, the image of this…
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Bankers are people. Brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, spouses, children, cousins, clients, business advisors, financial partners, and friends of other Lebanese people. Given that over 25,000 individuals are employed in the…
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Lebanon’s geographic location and trading history dictate the need for three basic premises in terms of its Economic Policy: a strong and stable currency, advantageous trading facilities and low taxes.…
