Lebanon needs to urgently embark on a comprehensive reform agenda that puts students at the center of the education sector and prioritizes quality of education for...
The Lebanese pound has depreciated about 90% in the past 18 months, driving annual food inflation to 400%, erasing salaries and savings, and pushing more than half the nation into...
Lebanon is enduring a severe and prolonged economic depression. According to the latest World Bank Lebanon Economic Monitor (LEM) released today, the economic and financial crisis...
As the pandemic continues to constrain economic activity across the World, it has a multiplier effect on the free-fall of the Lebanese economy. In fact, Lebanon’s...
Unfortunately, it seems that the Lebanese economic scenario is similar to the Venezuelan scenario. I am not optimistic. There is no glimmer of hope on the...
Syria continues to offer the ground where Russia and the United States compete over control of oil and gas fields and the transportation routes that bring...
As we have repeatedly stressed, the discovery of large gas fields off the coast of Israel, Cyprus, Egypt and Lebanon, has meant that the Eastern Mediterranean...
Syria has been the nexus of brutality and terror for almost a decade now; with more than 6 million natives who have already fled and numerous...
The Middle Eastern region has been riddled with crisis and disputes for centuries yet only a few seem to make their way out of an endless...
Reforming Lebanon’s port sector is a prerequisite for building back a better Port of Beirut and revitalizing the Lebanese economy, according to a new World Bank...
