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The Lebanese government has proudly outlined itsprivatization program in the recovery paper presented toParis III donors, underscoring its crucial role in promotinggrowth, reducing public debt and fiscal deficits. The focusis …

I recently stepped out of my apartment in Sharjah and absentmindedly forgot to lock the door behind me. I have always lived in places where doors lock automatically. I wasn’t …

“Climate change? What climate change?” These are the twoquestions I often hear when I mention this issue to Arabofficials. If I insist, they get irritated and change thesubject. Others try …

This was my eighth visit to Baghdad—in many ways, Baghdad feels like a second home, which I’m not sure is a healthy sentiment—my first being as the war wound down …

The market for consumer goods has never been moreprosperous, according to recent advertising businessstatistics. Classified Intelligence reported the market forclassified ads accounted for $30 billion in 2003 in theUnited States …

I came to Lebanon as an investor believing in the law,constitution and state of this country and I believedstrongly enough to invest hundreds of millions of dollars,”said Khalaf Habtoor, founding …

According to the latest figures in the retail real estatemarket, the sector is growing faster in the Gulf than in anyother region. The business website AME Info reports that by2010, …

This month will see 50 parking meters installed in one areaof the Beirut Central District. The pilot scheme, operatedby Near East Automatic Distributors (NEAD) in an $8 million,2.5-year, World Bank …

The United Kingdom’s National Union of General andMunicipal Workers (GMB Union) has recently accused privateequity firms of evading tax payments on billions of poundsthat have been borrowed to fund their …

The Middle Eastern Private Equity Internationalconference, held each year in the third week of March inDubai, has become the annual hotspot for the region’s PEindustry. Heads of international PE funds, …