To gauge the extent to which Lebanese manufacturing industry, an often overlooked but crucial driver of the economy, is being impacted by the current global coronavirus pandemic in conjunction with …
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Two months after a blundering collage of new budgetary revenue measures drove people into a unified and spontaneous civil uprising, the state of Lebanon remains an unresolved mess. Six weeks …
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As the banking sector is, for the umpteenth time in the last quarter century, the litmus test for Lebanon’s economic survivability and hopes of prosperity, Executive sat down with Salim …
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The need to reform electronic money transfer regulations
by Sami Halabiby Sami HalabiAll over the world, every day, millions of financial transactions take place at the press of a button. The words—and now the verbs—PayPal, TranferWise, and Venmo, are to payments what …
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It has been a tumultuous time for cryptocurrency investors and advocates alike who have watched the market value of the industry drastically drop in the past year. However, some optimism …
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When it comes to predictions for this year, there are some prophecies that are practically risk-free, even outside the notion that the biggest risks of 2019 are not related to …
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Regional geopolitical turmoil and ensuing economic uncertainties continue to place increasing pressure on the insurance sector. Stagnation in most of the sectors of the national economy is reflected in slower …
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This has been a difficult year for the Lebanese economy, sectors of activity, and financial markets at large. Compounding matters, political uncertainties have grown, especially during the second half of …
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Socioeconomically, Lebanon at the end of 2018 gives the appearance of having experienced a year of only two seasons: an overlong Carnival of political absurdities, and a Halloween of economic …
