All individual and group-based economic activity – simply, all human economic activity – inextricably relates to the community or society that the individual or economic group is embedded in. This…
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Lebanon is a wealthy country. In principle. It has all sorts of assets – land, water, industry, skilled workers and competitive professionals, a deep education system, touristic and cultural treasures, seasonal…
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While the attention of economic actors, policy-makers, civil society activists, most analysts, and international advisors has been, firmly and necessarily, on the vast repercussions of the Lebanese currency crash, inflation,…
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Seen in isolation, the situation of Lebanon at the onset of 2022 is that of a country which is still in the depths of a mindboggling crisis. The national crisis…
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The Budget draft law for 2022 that has been submitted to the Council of Ministers, projects 55.2 trillion Lebanese pounds in expenditures with revenues of 39.1 trillion. The need…
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Tools designed to channel new money into Lebanon’s economy in the start of January 2022 shine in the same way as they did last year: They emit rare vibes of…
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Introduction by Executive Editors When the Council of Ministers approved an economic reform program at the end of April, 2020, then-Prime Minister Hassan Diab hailed the plan with the epithet…
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Most countries in the world seek to attract investments as a dynamic driver of their economies. The establishment of free zones is one of the factors that countries, especially developing…
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A key driver of the Lebanese economic crisis has been the losses incurred by the public sector. These losses have impaired the banking sector and through it the deposits of…
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According to stakeholders in the renewable energy (RE) field, Lebanon’s banking sector is largely and conspicuously still absent in meeting the current needs of RE finance. At the time when…