An alternative to ineffective banking reforms and recovery plans The latest version of the bank resolution law has the same pitfalls as the previous ones. Mainly, the law proposed the…
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Lebanon is facing a very challenging time, and our governments have taken no action at all and remained in a state of procrastination for the past three and a half…
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Lebanon this year did not get off to a great and happy start in policy making. Neither on the micro-level of this small country on the edge of the world’s…
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It’s time to stop beating around the bush and address the elephant in the room. The economic situation in Lebanon is an absurdity, and the political class’ inaptitude to commit…
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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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The Lebanese political class looks vulgarly conniving when it collectively promotes an International Monetary Fund (IMF) deal as a finality while their real intentions lay against it. What is even…
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This article is the first in a series of articles in Executive Magazine’s upcoming “Financial Economy Special Report” prepared in collaboration with handpicked experts to cover key aspects of the…
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The complications posed by the refugee crisis and stagnant legislature found Lebanon’s public finances in troubled waters. There have, however, been some positive developments. The Ministry of Finance has again…
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Private equity investment in the GCC appears to be experiencing a “rebirth”. This is a very positive development as it may be paving the way for less oil dependency and…
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Lebanon’s history has not been short of challenges. The modern Lebanese state is less than a century old, yet it has endured unique experiences unknown to other nations over a…