Bread at Risk: Securing Lebanon’s Nutritional Staple Amid Rising Crises
Politicians must uphold the most basic promise of governance – to feed the people.
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Lebanon’s Housing Crisis: From Emergency Response to Sustainable Solutions
How homes for the displaced can lay the foundation for a more affordable, equitable, and resilient housing system.
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Trick Not Treat: Lebanon’s banking secrecy law is more appearance than substance
Lebanon amends banking secrecy law to appease the IMF but leaves loopholes to protect politico-banking elite
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Battle Lines: Ten economic principles for Lebanon’s progressive opposition
Regardless of the election results, the progressive opposition movement needs to follow a clear set of economic principles to take to the people, and the IMF
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Vague Intentions: IMF ‘deal’ skirts accountability for Lebanon’s elites
Without details, the IMF’s conditional staff-level agreement does more to entrench political and banking elites than to resolve Lebanon’s financial disaster
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SDRs Only Strengthen Lebanon’s Corrupt Elites
The IMF has allocated Lebanon $1.135 billion in Special Drawing Rights.
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No More Bread and Games
Since Roman times, the tried and tested tools used by the ruling classes in order to appease the poorest have always been “panem et circenses,” or bread and circuses. And for the past three decades, Lebanon’s political circus has kept many a politician, pundit and plebeian much amused with a mix of spectacle, sectarian posturing […]
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Lebanon Needs an IMF Bail-Out—Minus the Austerity
We must acknowledge our relative weakness on the international stage as we lower the drawbridge for the IMF.
