Decades of selling cigarettes has led Philip Morris International (PMI) to become one of the world’s largest corporations. Today, the company’s “smoke-free” alternatives, such as IQOS, have successfully lured smokers away…
Business
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As the global spotlight turns to expose the social and ethical behavior of business in an increasingly challenging market, the pressure is on for companies to revise models and check…
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Exactly a year ago, my organization Impact Invest Scandinavia was one of those who responded to the invitation of the International Trade Center and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO)…
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Once upon a time in the North – before conflicts in the hills of this country were fought to the point of slaughter among cousins – a young women of…
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Seen in isolation, the situation of Lebanon at the onset of 2022 is that of a country which is still in the depths of a mindboggling crisis. The national crisis…
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The Lebanese national debt, seen in relation to the country’s GDP, has been one of the highest in the world for many years. When the cost of servicing that debt…
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The definition of reform in the dictionary is “making changes to something in order to improve it.” The challenge has become insurmountable and the country’s finances might fall into a…
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More than 120 countries in the world have some form of a pegged exchanged rate system, in either soft or hard pegs mainly to the US dollar or the euro.…
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The Budget draft law for 2022 that has been submitted to the Council of Ministers, projects 55.2 trillion Lebanese pounds in expenditures with revenues of 39.1 trillion. The need…
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In its efforts to address the grim situation that the economy and financial system are in, the Government of Lebanon published in April 2020 a financial recovery plan aimed at…