Women aren’t allowed to drive there. When they leave the house, they must be accompanied by a male relative. And in public they must wear the all-enveloping abaya at all…
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News does not move the markets; perceptions move the markets. Nowhere has this axiom been truer than in the Lebanese financial markets in this intense year of 2005. The amount…
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When we asked a random sample of people their opinion on customer service in Lebanon, we routinely received the same answer: “What customer service? Ha! MAFEE customer service in Lebanon.”…
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Financial markets despise uncertainty, but in Lebanon, these markets were served with large doses of uncertainty time and time again in 2004. Certainly, Lebanon’s geographical location did not help matters:…
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The government and the private sector must do more than squabble over the standards in the dairy product sector if proper regulation is to be achieved. Cutthroat competition between small…
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The year 2003 is history and, in the US, the market battle is now beginning again. For the month of January, we will have to struggle with summaries of what…
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Mohammed Samir, the Egyptian head of P&G (Proctor and Gamble) Levant is sitting in the conference room of P&G’s offices in the prestigious Atrium building in the BCD. Next to…