The insurance industry in Lebanon is priding itself on a good year in 2011, with measurable partial results documented faster than ever before. Issues that inhibit the sector’s growth, however, …
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Lebanese government
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Lebanon’s Minister of Environment, Nazem Khoury, has one of the tougher jobs in government — to raise the profile of a nascent ministry in an already crowded field. Khoury spoke …
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I never thought I would say it, but Lebanon was one of the most stable countries in the Middle East this past year. Many commentators and politicians expressed regret that Lebanon …
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The role of branding products to increase their value and profitability is given serious import in the commercial world. Building familiarity, trust and loyalty to brands is at the core …
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Telecommunications in Lebanon has come to embody the fault line along which Lebanese business and government split. While the people who use the communications networks try to progress and join …
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The government’s endorsement of a plan to increase the minimum wage from LL500,000 ($333) to LL700,000 ($467), accompanied by salary hikes for those earning up to LL1.8 million ($1200), gave …
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Few would disagree that the minimum wage in Lebanon needs to increase to help the poorest socio-economic segment of the population better meet the rising cost of living. And while …
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The current Lebanese government is, in economic terms, as dangerous as a blind man with a loaded gun and an itchy trigger finger. To date, it has shown little to …
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If I appear vague, forgive me, but looking at the document the Lebanese government was supposed to show the assembled international donors in Paris, a group that included sovereign governments, …
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As Lebanon ended the year 2006 in a spell of indecision and instability, alarmingly little attention was given to what arguably may be, short of war, the most debilitating result …