Tourism Minister Fadi Abboud said in October that he expected 2010 to have been another bumper year for Lebanese tourism, predicting that revenues from the industry will hit nearly …
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2010 net profits and growth First half 2010 financials from Lebanon’s Alpha Banks Lebanese alpha banks continued to gain profits and assets in the first half of 2010 with Bank …
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The road to transparency is seldom traveled by Gulf financial institutions, but the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority’s (ADIA) publication last month of its first financial disclosure since its inception in …
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Bekaa farmers and Lebanon’s Sugar Beet Cooperation argue that Lebanese agriculture cannot survive without government support. Like most farmers around the world, they oppose today’s belief in free trade and …
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As we keep hammering in many articles, the end game for a country like Lebanon is to attract and keep foreign investors. The thinking goes that foreign investment in the …
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Between the first round of investigations by the Mehlis Commission and the killing of MP Gebran Tueni, the “Beirut I” donor conference briefly became news. National interest peaked in September …
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It’s already evident, barring a miracle, that there will be no “Beirut I”, let alone a “Paris-II”, conference this February to help Lebanon face its increasingly ominous economic tribulations. In …
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With Lebanon having crossed the Rubicon of the Mehlis report, it must now prepare for the storm that will follow. In many respects, the country will have to use the …
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The end game for developing countries, in this day and age, is the ability to attract and maintain capital investment. The catalyst to this inflow is, broadly speaking, a mix …
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Back in April 2004, we discussed oil in these pages, making the judgment that at nearly $50 per barrel, oil was getting into treacherously elevated price territory. The frenzy that …