December / January 2022
EDITORIAL
LAST YEAR
LEADERS
Let number 5 be alive
Integrating Lebanes productive industries in the ranks of economic reform
Executive Editors
SPECIAL REPORT: FINANCIAL ECONOMY
What Special Drawing Rights can do and what they cannot deliver
Explaining the rules of the IMF
Mounir Rached
A fiscal space to breathe
Hits and misses of the Lebanese government’s financial recovery plan
Rayane Dandache
BUSINESS
Rebuilding trust with expatriates and depositors
Q&A with Riad Obegi, chairman and general manager of BEMO
Thomas Schellen