By the strange virtue of its unresolved economic and financial crisis of now four year duration, Lebanon has become an examination room and nation-scale laboratory for analyzing an economic and…
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Banking everywhere is being confronted with deep societal paradigm shifts and digital transformation challenges. Demands for better governance and heightened societal and environmental accountability are being leveled by civil societies,…
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Today, one-and-a-half years after the April 2022 staff-level agreement between the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Lebanese government, the challenges to implementing the proposed $3 billion deal have become…
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In the annals of economic distress, poignant statements often serve as harbingers of the challenges that lie ahead. Three years ago, then- President Michel Aoun’s proclamation that we were going…
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An energy transition requires a lot of – energy. This insight is a truism. But it is not a problem of circular reasoning, which would be saying that energy security…
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Organic farming, a fast-growing industry at the global level, has faced numerous challenges in Lebanon. According to a 2020 EU-led survey on organic ecosystems, these threats and weaknesses have been…
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The Lebanese authority’s failure to manage the electricity sector is not a new phenomenon for the Lebanese people as electricity shortages have been prevalent in their daily lives for the…
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Samar Monzer has connected her refrigerator and illuminated her house. As she stands in the kitchen, baking a cake for her three children, she savors the renewed sense of comfort…
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Harnessed energy constitutes the juice of life for industrial and post-industrial, knowledge and information based, economic activity. Crucial for our quality of living, electricity powers, among other things, our refrigerators,…
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Arab countries are witnessing a fundamental recalibration of their different roles in the global game of energy. The world’s accelerated awareness of energy security priorities and still growing climate risks…