SEPTEMBER / OCTOBER 2020
EDITORIAL
LEADERS
POVERTY
Why direct support is more efficient than subsidies and how to transition
Safety nets versus subsidies
Haneen Sayed
UNESCO tackles physical, psychological and systemic educational challenges
School rehabilitation efforts post Beirut blast
Mona Betour El-Zoghbi
Lebanese poverty rates swell across income groups
Lebanon’s poverty and scope for alleviation
Vladimir Hlasny and Khalid Abu Ismail
Why investing in refugees benefits host communities and the refugees’ country of origin
Enabling refugees’ development enables society at large
Karolina Lindholm Billing
SPECIAL REPORT: LABOR
Five imperatives the new government will need to tackle to create jobs
From a dynamic private sector to the participation of women in the labor force
Maroun Kairouz
The knowledge economy
A strategic priority for economic growth and job creation in Lebanon
Adel Afiouni
Industry: Its role and perspective in Lebanon’s economic growth
Untapped potential to compete in global industry
Ziad Bekdache
Boosting the Lebanese Food Industry to Preserve and Create Jobs
Lebanon can supply its own foods domestically
Mounir Bissat
