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Spoiled Ballot: Elections Uncertain as Municipalities’ Mandates Set to End

Spoiled Ballot: Elections Uncertain as Municipalities’ Mandates Set to End

Spoiled Ballot:  Elections Uncertain as Municipalities’ Mandates Set to End
Shadow Trade: Smuggling’s Winners, Losers & Enduring Dynamics

Shadow Trade: Smuggling’s Winners, Losers & Enduring Dynamics

Shadow Trade: Smuggling’s Winners, Losers & Enduring Dynamics
New EDL Tariffs: A Step Towards the Light or a Shot in the Dark?

New EDL Tariffs: A Step Towards the Light or a Shot in the Dark?

New EDL Tariffs: A Step Towards the Light or a Shot in the Dark?

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Short Circuits: Why Lebanon’s electricity sector is still broken

Short Circuits: Why Lebanon’s electricity sector is still broken

Why doesn’t my electricity work? At the start of this month, Lebanon’s residents woke up to the dubious news that Electricité du Liban (EDL) was increasing its tariffs – and for the first time since the 1990s. Controversial though the announcement was, the price hike...

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Rock Bottom: The Tax Reforms Lebanon Has to Have

Rock Bottom: The Tax Reforms Lebanon Has to Have

For most people there are only two certainties in life: death and taxes. In Lebanon the wealthy really only need to worry about the former. The state’s exceptionally weak tax and revenue structures mean the tax burden largely falls upon middle and lower classes –...

Short Circuits: Why Lebanon’s Electrciticty Sector is Still Broken

Short Circuits: Why Lebanon’s Electrciticty Sector is Still Broken

Our infographic simplifies the mess by framing the crisis around three crucial problems–infrastructure, politics, and the law–and the consequences that each of these generates. Our hope is that by understanding Lebanon’s messy electricity problems, we can collectively...

Ignore the Mirage: Oil and gas will not save Lebanon

Ignore the Mirage: Oil and gas will not save Lebanon

The border demarcation issue with Israel is hardly the only one that needs to be resolved. So far, there has been only limited exploration with limited evidence of hydrocarbon reserves. Energy firms may prove wary to invest in a volatile climate such as Lebanon’s, as...

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