As long as the global food and energy crisis continues, Lebanese households – which rely overwhelmingly on imported products – will start skipping meals, eating less, losing nutrients, and falling ill.
Articles tagged "Economic reform"
Stillborn: Lebanon’s public transport announcement dead on arrival
Since 1985, the Lebanese government has made at least 13 such announcements, plans, proposals and / or studies about new public transport projects – an average of one every 2.4 years.
Russian Roulette: Ukraine exposes Lebanon’s dangerous food security game
The Ukrainian crisis is merely the latest alarming threat to Lebanese food security in recent years. It follows on the heels of the country’s economic crisis, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the Beirut Port explosion – a series of unambiguous warning shots.
Bucketing Down: A Principled Bail-In for Lebanon’s Overflowing Debts
How banking regulations can fairly allocate losses and avert future crises.
Fuelling Addiction: How Importers And Politicians Keep Lebanon Hooked On Oil
Eliminating national oil dependence will clear out conflicts of interest.
Salvaging Syndicates: How to Defend and Strengthen Lebanon’s Pension Funds
In light of Lebanon’s economic turmoil and pension crisis , how can we safeguard the retirement savings of Lebanese citizens?
Risky Business: How Syndicates Exposed Pensions To Lebanon’s Banking Crisis
The urgent need to salvage and reform worker’s retirement schemes.
Plummet or Prosper: The Risks and Potential of Lebanon’s Productive Economy
How farms and factories can make or break Lebanon’s future.
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.
Foreign Legal Pressure Can Corner Lebanon’s Banking Elites
When Lebanon’s financial sector imploded, it was inevitable that the country’s elites would try to shunt those losses onto everyday Lebanese. Over several years, Lebanese bankers had gambled away their customers’ savings, leaving banks unable to meet their debts by October 2019 – if not earlier....
See You In Court: Foreign Legal Pressure Can Corner Lebanon’s Banking Elites
Pathways for Lebanese depositors to force bankers towards a fair deal.
Divided We Fall: Bringing Together Lebanon’s Opposition Movement
As Lebanon approaches another round of parliamentary elections opposition parties face old threats and new opportunities.
Reviving Lebanon’s Public Transport: Overcoming Political Roadblocks and Crafting Inclusive Solutions for Sustainable Mobility
In the midst of Lebanon’s public transport challenges, we try to envision a diverse and inclusive system that unites citizens and transcends political divisions.
Carrots And Sticks: How Sanctions and Principled Aid Can Bring Lebanon’s Politicians to The Table
Sanctions and principled aid can pull Lebanon back from the abyss – but only by targeting the banking sector and carefully monitoring the state’s role in aid distribution
Revitalizing Lebanon: A Progressive Socio-Economic Manifesto for Transformation
Exploring Lebanon’s socioeconomic frailties and policy solutions: Confronting rentier capitalism and crafting a fairer future.
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.
Bolstering Labour Movements: Lessons from Independent Unions in Lebanon
Navigating the legal restrictions and political co-optation of organized labor in Lebanon.
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.
Get In Gear: Unleashing the Potential of Lebanese Cooperatives
Lebanon’s short-sighted economy has chased profits for the few at the expense of the gener- al public, resulting in almost three quarters of wealth being owned by 10 percent of the population.
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.
Breaking the Bank: Alternative Pathways to Lebanon’s Broken Banking Sector
How credit unions can bring more accountability to Lebanese finance.
Shake On It: A Fair IMF Package For Lebanon
Defaulting on Lebanon’s foreign-held debt may have patched up the country’s financial wounds, but it has not stopped the internal bleeding.
Coming Clean: Time to Open Lebanon’s Chamber of Banking Secrets
How Lebanon’s banking secrecy laws facilitate tax dodging and harm the national economy.
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.
Catch Up Time: Reforming Electronic Money Transfers In Lebanon
Lebanese banks and financial companies that provide electronic money transfer (EMT) services profit off consumers through transfer fees and hidden exchange rates that are nothing less than exploitative.
A New Financial Deal for Lebanon: Debt Relief and Well Designed Stimulus can Pull Lebanon out of Economic Malaise
Instead of continuing to support unaffordable housing prices, Lebanon’s central bank needs to lead a drive for public debt relief and remodel its stimulus packages to serve the public interest.