Economics and Policy Lebanon’s GDP is expected to grow at 1.4 percent in 2013 in the face of mostly poor economic indicators, global bank HSBC has said, downgrading their previous …
Tag:
lebanon
-
-
The much-anticipated Beirut City Centre (BCC) mall finally opened its doors last week and thousands of Lebanese have already flocked to Hazmieh, causing chaos on the already congested roads leading …
-
If you hear anyone cry wolf about demand in the Lebanese real estate market in 2013, rest assured that this is not the time to panic. The market is not …
-
Economics and Policy Egypt’s planning minister has said the government expects to reach a final agreement with the International Monetary Fund on a $4.8 billion loan within two weeks, the state news …
-
Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, Larry Page and Sergey Brin: so many of the brightest ideas that define our modern age started out as partnerships. …
-
Italian food is one of the most common foreign cuisines in Lebanon — so much so that at first glance one wonders what the added value of Villaggio, the latest …
-
On a quiet Sunday night last month the fraying coexistence that is Lebanese society suffered another tear. Two scholars from Dar Al Fatwa, Sheikh Mazen Hariri and Sheikh Ahmed Fakhran, …
-
They are not actually new-new. They give banks smaller margins than they did in their previous incarnation. They are tightly controlled with very little to no wiggle room on interest …
-
A recent homegrown option for rich Lebanese to invest in a fund with global reach is being pushed into the market by Banque Libano-Francaise (BLF) — in fact, it is …
-
Endless queues at ATMs, protests in front of Parliament, banks closed for 12 consecutive days and businesses under increasing pressure to continue operating: the eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, just …