It is desirable for a polity to agree on a social contract as that is what “we” as a society manage collectively. If there is further agreement that the “we”…
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Reform
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It is an outrage that you cannot put in words. As it is continuing within the raging economic crisis, the collapse of education and health has become Lebanon’s worst strategic…
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The past year has seen the nation’s top political actors in the Cabinet and Parliament regularly present themselves as being busy in the people’s interest. A budget law was debated…
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“You can take it to the bank,” is an idiomatic expression commonly uttered by someone – usually a politician or manly man with business power – to express a very…
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The definition of reform in the dictionary is “making changes to something in order to improve it.” The challenge has become insurmountable and the country’s finances might fall into a…
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The Budget draft law for 2022 that has been submitted to the Council of Ministers, projects 55.2 trillion Lebanese pounds in expenditures with revenues of 39.1 trillion. The need…
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Amid the worst economic crisis Lebanon is witnessing since the civil war, one could identify two major observations (a positive and a negative one) when it comes to the country’s…
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Through its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), approved by Parliament under Law 115 dated 2019, Lebanon has committed to achieving a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. Moreover,…
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The supply of growth figures is so poor in Lebanon these days that any economic increase – one that is not a horrid leap in poverty, hunger, unemployment, and inflation…
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Today, the electricity sector is in full collapse and Lebanese people are plunged in darkness, with only 1-3 hours of state electricity per day. They have to rely on expensive…