Any lender asks a lot from and about their borrowers. The story is familiar to any Lebanese parent who ever needed to take out a loan of a few thousand …
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IMF 2025 outlook: Critical junctures of uncertainty and risks
The IMF is the primary publisher of brainy perspectives on the economies of countries, regions, and the world. The latest series of IMF assessments of the global economy –namely The …
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Authors’ disclaimer: Executive issued the invitation for this expert contribution on the publicness of coastal spaces one month before the expansion of the Israeli war on Lebanon in September 2024. …
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Teams in MIT hackathon give Lebanon’s virtual salvation their best try
The only things that are growing fast are bouts of desperation and the holes in people’s pockets. At least that’s the popular impression of the Lebanese crisis, one that can …
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Analytical approaches to economic rescue plans for Lebanon
Lebanon’s political economy today is in a situation where risks are existential and inaction opens the gates to disaster, but potential payoffs are highly skewed to the upside—if successful. This …
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Experts tackle Lebanon’s dilemmas with a plethora of rescue plans
IN BRIEF The implications of Lebanon’s current fiscal crisis are grave, but not fated to be devastating. Economic rescue plans circulating remain in the pro-private and neo-liberal economic modes of …