Economics & Policy

As Lebanon keeps pushing through one of the greatest economic and financial collapse’s in history, we can only appreciate the resilience of its private sector. Since the “official” start of …

Lebanon is facing a very challenging time, and our governments have taken no action at all and remained in a state of procrastination for the past three and a half …

The repercussions of the ongoing crisis in Lebanon have knocked on every door, be it businesses, homes or the public sector. Whilst companies cannot ignore the crisis, there are strategies …

With its flying faculty model, ESA Business School (ESA) is an exceptional case in the Lebanese higher education sector. In contrast to many other institutions, resorting to direct fundraising was …

Lebanon was considered for a long time “the window of the Middle East,” and that was built on the principle of individual, economic and cultural freedom, as well as freedom …

The past year has seen the nation’s top political actors in the Cabinet and Parliament regularly present themselves as being busy in the people’s interest. A budget law was debated …

Lebanon this year did not get off to a great and happy start in policy making. Neither on the micro-level of this small country on the edge of the world’s …

It is much more than a vague, billion-dollar opportunity for growing cannabis. Lebanese agriculture today is a field with many plots whose diversity has already grown when compared with some …

What can illustrate the relationship between the farmer and the banker in this country? To modify an old consultant joke to a Lebanese scenario, let us assume – purely for …