Slightly over two years after effectively beginning to implement mandatory motor insurance, the number of motor vehicles with Third-Party-Liability (TPL) coverage against bodily injury claims has risen to levels drastically …
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Lebanon-based information technology firm Software Design Consulting Group (SDCG) is a rare success story in the country’s landscape of IT developers and implementers with a combined domestic and regional approach. …
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Lebanon has significant potential in the conferencing business. This area of enterprise is an often underestimated, yet versatile commercial realm with touching on education, networking, and tourism. Even though conferences …
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The story starts in Masnaa, at the Lebanese border station. The line of trucks begins a few hundred meters east of the Masnaa crossing and continues for the next 8 …
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The news struck first at the Jordan World Economic Forum: a consortium under leadership of Saad Hariri is creating Saraya Aqaba, a major new leisure project in the Gulf of …
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It was a positive, not to mention mildly surprising sight late last month, when workers descended upon Beirut’s downtown pedestrian area and installed dividers to finally separate the outdoor seating …
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Advocates of rural development allude often to the large number of micro-climates that allow for specialty produce to be grown here easily in a larger range than in most other …
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Optimism has cult status among Lebanese tourism professionals. Having suffered blow after blow over decades, the sector’s seasoned practitioners today display a measure of immunity to bad news and business …
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For an industry that is battling a higher cost of doing business and, during the past quarter witnessed its first contraction of deposits after something like 50 quarters of perpetual …
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With Lebanon’s parliamentary elections having recently provoked so much controversy for reasons of sectarian representation, little attention has been devoted to how the new Parliament might address urgent economic issues, …