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McKinsey’s uninspiring economic vision

by Executive Staff

In January, Lebanon published McKinsey’s economic vision slides that were the result of government discussions in late 2017 on commission by the Ministry of Economy and Trade. The 1,274 slide show document was developed over the first half of 2018, and can be seen as an economic vision outsourced to the consulting firm with ownership by the government. There is buy-in from three, top-level board members, but we do not have clarity of intermediate or upper management, and for that a new cabinet must be formed, hence there is no buy-in at the level of administration or state management. This report appears as if McKinsey is talking to the tiny owner-senior executive management layer of a family-owned corporation, or at best a family-owned rentier state cut from the same cloth found in some undemocratic state in the Middle East. But that is not Lebanon. Despite all the weaknesses of our

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