Articles tagged "Cartel control"
Postal Politics: The Battle for Lebanon’s Postal Contract
How the rivalry for LibanPost could decide the country’s financial future
Packaged for Greed: The Hidden Agendas Behind Lebanon’s Postal Sector Power Grab
How the rivalry for LibanPost could decide the country’s financial future
Power Struggles: Lebanon’s Summer Heat Exposes Energy Divide
The crisis-ridden ownership of energy in Lebanon has created an energy divide of haves and have-nots and a system reliant on imports
Lebanon’s Last Chance for Deposit Recovery
Lebanese State-Owned Enterprises: Navigating Reform and Recovery
A roadmap for state-owned enterprises reform in Lebanon, emphasizing transparency, good governance, and rejecting the controversial ‘Sovereign Fund’ to steer towards economic stability.
Lebanon’s New Deposit Recovery Plan
Rescuing What’s Lost: Progressive Deposit Recovery Plan
The Progressive Deposit Recovery Plan offers a lifeline for Lebanese depositors, aiming to recover and restore funds once deemed lost in the country’s financial turmoil.
Exchange Rate Mis-Regulation: A Nation Short-Changed
Burnt Bulb: EDL Reforms Being Foiled From the Top
Electricity crisis set to worsen as caretaker energy minister stifles long awaited reforms.
‘They’ Have Names: Who’s Behind Lebanon’s Banks & State
An editorial investigation into how the vested financial interests of Lebanese bankers and politicians are one and the same.
Shadow Trade: Smuggling’s Winners, Losers & Enduring Dynamics
Why illegal cross-border commerce is so hard to stop.
Rock Bottom: The Tax Reforms Lebanon Has to Have
The government’s inequitable revenue structures can no longer afford to keep burdening the poor while giving a free pass to those with the means to pay their share of taxes.
Lebanon’s 2022 Budget: Harsh Realities of Tax Reform and Government Intentions
Lebanon’s 2022 budget’s has a preference for regressive taxation, potentially shielding the wealthy while financially straining ordinary citizens.
Bank Restructuring in Lebanon: Depositor Protection, Clawbacks, and Legal Loopholes
Addressing Lebanon’s banking turmoil through lirafication debates, accountability for large deposits, clawbacks, bankruptcy laws, and potential conflicts of interest in governance.
Rhetoric or Reform: Lebanon’s 2022 Financial Recovery Plan
Analyzing Lebanon’s 2022 Financial Recovery Plan, from its ambitious promises to critical flaws in depositor compensation, fund structure, wealth legitimacy checks, and the glaring lack of accountability.
Short Circuits: Why Lebanon’s electricity sector is still broken
Infrastructure, political, and legal barriers to reforming Lebanon’s broken electricity sector.
From Bail-out To Bail-in: Distribution Of Losses And Accountablity In Lebanon’s Financial Plan
Lebanon must transition from a depositor-funded bail-out to a just bail-in, holding those responsible for the financial crisis accountable and ensuring fair loss distribution through international standards and local laws.
Capital Control: Concealing Corruption
Lebanon’s capital control proposal risks entrenching financial corruption by granting banks undue amnesty and empowering a politically biased committee.
The Great Sell-Off: How Lebanon’s banking sector sold off the country’s financial future to foreign interests
An investigation by Badil reveals previously unknown details of Lebanon’s Eurobond default and how the banking sector manipulated it to facilitate billions of dollars in foreign transfers.
Business As Usual: Long-standing corruption threatens Beirut’s port reconstruction
The ten-year contract to operate the Beirut Port’s container terminal looks to be just the beginning of collective erasure and return to the status quo.
Market Incorrection: New Competition Law Allows Status Quo to Continue
The law, which civil society groups and the international community have demanded for decades, purports to liberate Lebanon’s private sector from control by politically connected cartels.
Fuelling Addiction: How Importers And Politicians Keep Lebanon Hooked On Oil
Eliminating national oil dependence will clear out conflicts of interest.
A Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Campaign Against Entities Impeding a Fair Solution to Lebanon’s Financial Crisis
Exploring financial crimes in Lebanon, depositors’ pursuit of justice, the BDS campaign against banking elites, and the challenges of money recovery.
Driving Disaster: Lebanon’s Shadow Financial Plan
How a clandestine plan is forcing the Lebanese people to pay for a banking crisis created by elites.
Mountain to Mortar: Lebanon’s Concrete Conflicts of Interests
Holding those in power to account will be no simple task, given Lebanon’s notorious culture of impunity in the construction sector.
Unfair Game: Lebanon’s Rigged Markets Are Killing Competition
For decades, Lebanon’s economy has overwhelmingly served the interests of certain economic actors, who preside over widespread monopolies and oligopolies.
Extend and Pretend: Lebanon’s Financial House of Cards
How Lebanon’s politicians and banks constructed a regulated ponzi scheme that ran the country’s economy into the ground.