In fact, the year 2023 for Saint Joseph University of Beirut (USJ) is a continuation of the implementation of a financial and social plan decided in 2022. It consists of…
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We live in a time when hardly a day goes by without hearing about a cybersecurity incident. The need for a safe and secure digital world significantly grew after the…
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Lebanon’s fiscal policy over the past decades has been in most years very expansionary. Fiscal deficits at the end of the civil war relied heavily on domestic currency financing. Foreign…
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AnalysisBanking & FinanceSpecial Report
The legality and the perceptions of banking based in Lebanon
To the interest of anyone who is not a part of the political and banking power ensemble, an absurd theater of dance and song is being played out on the…
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Financial inclusion is a cornerstone of sustainable development. The basic premise being that zero or poor access to financial services makes life a lot more complicated for people trying to…
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Lebanon’s socio-political-economic cancer has metastasized through critical levels of political corruption and nepotism, with flagrant economic and social exploitations, from politicians, their institutions, and the elitists who surround them. The…
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One banker, interviewed for this issue, said it: “Bankers feel threatened, bullied, and feel that they are [made to bear] responsibility for something that they did not do.” The stewards…
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The dispatch from the general assembly of the United Nations (UN) was official. The officially hyphenated Secretary-General Antonio Guterres met with Mohammad Najib Azmi Mikati, President of the Council of…
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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 Lebanese national debt, seen in relation to the country’s GDP, has been one of the highest in the world for many years. When the cost of servicing that debt…