If you have read Executive’s 4-part explainer (see I, II, III, and IV) on Lebanon and the International Monetary Fund (IMF), ...

It is self-explanatory that the war on Lebanon has affected extant education systems badly. For different providers in the country’s fragmented educational landscape – one that has long been flagged ...

The short story of Lebanon’s vital trade of 2020 has three chapters but no resolution at the end. The tragic and dramatic lead character of the story is the Beirut port, which is revealed throughout ...

Health encapsulates economic activity that amounts to trillions of dollars by the—in this context crude—methodology of collating production of goods and services as gross domestic product (GDP). The ...

We live in a time when hardly a day goes by without hearing about a cybersecurity incident. The need for a safe and secure digital world significantly grew after the COVID-19 pandemic, as human ...

The brutal war in Syria has had a devastating effect on the country and significant spillover into Lebanon and other neighboring countries, most intensely between 2012 and 15. Entering the 2000s with ...

What social and economic science often calls a shock event is something that heavily impacts the moment but transpires into much more consequential long-term changes of the previous status quo. These ...

Despite the Central Bank’s (BDL) circular 331, which allows venture capital firms and banks to finance startups with less risks by guaranteeing investments up to 75 percent, Lebanese tech firms are ...

Unrest among depositors and citizens has taken new shapes in recent weeks. Tempers are out of control in the face of inactive decision makers and silent banks. The current time is pivotal not only for ...

In Lebanon, the under-provisioning of infrastructure has created gaps in services delivery, hence exacerbating productivity, and putting the country on a lower growth trajectory. Lebanon does lag ...

Creating and empowering an independent, strong, fair, transparent, and accountable regulatory and supervisory institution is, by experience of virtually all countries with a thriving ...

In periods of economic uncertainties, people look for safe havens to preserve the value of their money and assets, and the choices of investors during the current global and local economic crisis has ...