In Lebanon, 46 percent of households are food insecure – a figure likely to rise in the coming months as state subsidies on essential imports like cooking oil, bread and …
Thomas Schellen
Thomas Schellen
Thomas Schellen is Executive's editor-at-large. He has been reporting on Middle Eastern business and economy for over 20 years. Send mail
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Unrest among depositors and citizens has taken new shapes in recent weeks. Tempers are out of control in the face of inactive decision makers and silent banks. The current time …
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AnalysisBanking & FinanceSpecial Report
The legality and the perceptions of banking based in Lebanon
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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Economics & PolicyICT infrastructureOverviewSpecial ReportTelecom
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 …
