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Onwards and Upwards? The Lira’s Treacherous Route Ahead
To restore stability and credibility, the government must reform the central bank’s governance, tighten fiscal policy, and ultimately execute a carefully managed float of the lira.
Sanction elites to stop Lebanon from becoming a failed state
Lebanon is four years into one of the worst financial crises in modern history, and in that time the country’s powerbrokers – the politicians,...
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Sayrafa Explained: How Lebanon’s Central Bank Quells Unrest by Subsidising Elites
“A weak and inefficient monetary tool”
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Sayrafa Explained: How Lebanon’s Central Bank Quells Unrest by Subsidising Elites
“A weak and inefficient monetary tool”
Fanning the Flames: How Misinformation on Social Media Exacerbates Community Tensions
Social media enhances social connections on digital networks but has also facilitated the rapid dissemination of misinformation.
Sign of the Times: The information that Tripolitans need to survive
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Onwards and Upwards? The Lira’s Treacherous Route Ahead
To restore stability and credibility, the government must reform the central bank’s governance, tighten fiscal policy, and ultimately execute a carefully managed float of the lira.
Crude and Green: Energy Giants Scoop Up Lebanon’s Oil, Wind and Solar
Oversight absent as TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy take over the energy sector.
Houses Without Homes: Beirut’s Affordable Housing Crisis
How decades of real estate ‘financialization’ have built a city few can afford to live in.
Broken Branches: Lebanon’s Disappearing Forests
Rapid urbanisation, illegal logging, and wildfires whittling away at country’s wooded areas.
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Sanction elites to stop Lebanon from becoming a failed state
Lebanon is four years into one of the worst financial crises in modern history, and in that time the country’s powerbrokers – the politicians, bankers and sectarian leaders – have been actively taking steps to speed the country’s descent into the abyss. To be clear:...
Burnt Bulb: EDL Reforms Being Foiled From the Top
Electricity crisis set to worsen as caretaker energy minister stifles long awaited reforms.
Undermining Democracy: Lebanon’s Cabinet Violates Constitution To Protect Banking Elite
Lebanon’s cabinet violates constitution to protect banking elite.
‘They’ Have Names
The Lebanese have known since at least the 1960s that the banks run the country, but we have known this in the abstract. We have used the vague pronoun hineh, ‘them’, to describe these de factor rulers. But Lebanon is not ‘theirs’ and ‘they’ have a name, a face, bank...
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Onwards and Upwards? The Lira’s Treacherous Route Ahead
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Crude and Green: Energy Giants Scoop Up Lebanon’s Oil, Wind and Solar
Oversight absent as TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy take over the energy sector.
Houses Without Homes: Beirut’s Affordable Housing Crisis
How decades of real estate ‘financialization’ have built a city few can afford to live in.
Broken Branches: Lebanon’s Disappearing Forests
Rapid urbanisation, illegal logging, and wildfires whittling away at country’s wooded areas.
Crushed Ballot: Ending the Suppression of Lebanon’s Municipalities
Municipalities' Can Reshape Development And Service Provision In Lebanon, If Freed To Represent Their Communities.
Shadow Trade: Smuggling’s Winners, Losers & Enduring Dynamics
Why illegal cross-border commerce is so hard to stop.
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Onwards and Upwards? The Lira’s Treacherous Route Ahead
To restore stability and credibility, the government must reform the central bank’s governance, tighten fiscal policy, and ultimately execute a carefully managed float of the lira.
Sanction elites to stop Lebanon from becoming a failed state
Lebanon is four years into one of the worst financial crises in modern history, and in that time the country’s powerbrokers – the politicians, bankers and sectarian leaders – have been actively taking steps to speed the country’s descent into the abyss. To be clear:...
Crude and Green: Energy Giants Scoop Up Lebanon’s Oil, Wind and Solar
Oversight absent as TotalEnergies and QatarEnergy take over the energy sector.
Houses Without Homes: Beirut’s Affordable Housing Crisis
How decades of real estate ‘financialization’ have built a city few can afford to live in.
Broken Branches: Lebanon’s Disappearing Forests
Rapid urbanisation, illegal logging, and wildfires whittling away at country’s wooded areas.