The need for security is a constant refrain among Lebanese politicians and journalists, who tend to intone that it has something to do with ministers meeting their maker on…
Economics & Policy
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For an inside view of Lebanon’s top restaurants, check out the the luxury special report in the July edition of Executive Magazine, in stores now.
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Economic growth crashing to 1.3 percent Lebanon’s real gross domestic product growth for 2011 is expected to be just 1.3 percent, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU) latest country…
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To describe Lebanon’s telecommunications sector as politicized would be an understatement on par with saying the summer of 2006 was eventful, or that Hezbollah and Israel enjoy a good game…
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Developing a vibrant and innovative information and communication technology (ICT) sector would provide the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region with a propitious opportunity to increase productivity and boost…
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When the tourism minister starts talking about how we should change the country’s strategy from attracting “land” tourists to “air” tourists you know that the industry, which props up around…
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The ‘Arab Spring’ is yielding some unexpected and exotic political fruits. The proposal to accept Jordan and Morocco into the Gulf Cooperation Council is certainly among the most intriguing, and…
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The failure of a government to actually govern can be overlooked, and even ignored, when a country’s economy somehow manages to independently cook up growth, as Lebanon’s has, churning out…
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Money talks Figures published last month by the Kuwaiti-owned Zain Group, which operates Lebanon’s mobile phone network MTC, indicated that it generated a net profit of $27.1 million in 2010…
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ULRICH KÖGLER is a partner and IVAN JAKOVLJEVIC a senior associate at Booz & Company In an age when email and digital social media dominate the present and future of…