OCTOBER 2016
EDITORIAL
LEADERS
Making green affordable
The need for eco-friendly development for Lebanon – for all
Executive Editors
COVER STORY
Meet the megas
Large-scale projects suggest more life than expected on the residential property market
Thomas Schellen
ECONOMICS & POLICY
Selling a national oil company
Fuad Jawad’s solution for a clean hydrocarbons sector? Himself
Matt Nash
BANKING & FINANCE
The twisted tale of the Lebanese Canadian Bank
An old conflict and a lazy press corps
Thomas Schellen and Matt Nash
Rocky relations
More Arab banks are reporting interruptions in correspondent banking relations with Western institutions
Jeremy Arbid
Negative interest rates
A novelty in economic policy, they are unlikely to meet objectives
Talal Salman
HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM
LAST WORD
We don't need no explanations
As politicians iterate many words, nothing new gets put on the table
Thomas Schellen