Economics & Policy

Fueled by demographic growth, urbanization and economic development, the cities of the Gulf Cooperation Council are growing at a rapid rate that is outpacing their current transport infrastructure and services. …

The proposed tobacco control law being mulled by the Lebanese Parliamentary Administration and Justice Committee has stirred debate between health-minded civil society activists, lobbyists from the tobacco and advertising industries …

The Lebanese government has developed a habitual pattern of behavior in regards to progressive policy: the idea is lit with good intentions, smoked by vested interests and political squabbling, then …

Of the five pillars of Islam, making the pilgrimage to Mecca was perhaps the most testing for those who lived in the time before planes and cars. Each bodily able …

According to the Consultation and Research Institute (CRI), a private consulting firm, February saw real prices in Lebanon deflate. Throughout the month, the consumer price index (CPI), the premier indicator …

  Over the last decade, the state of private equity (PE) in the Middle East has gone from virtually nonexistent, to a booming prospect, to an industry facing a shakeup. …

Among the more developed countries of the world it is customary to hold the nation’s constitution as sacrosanct, with governments that violate it swiftly shown the door by way of …

For decades, major energy companies have been at the forefront of the global shipping of hydrocarbons. However, energy company shipping assets have largely underperformed, and this has generally been accepted …