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Lira plummets to 80,000 LBP, citizens react in anger

The pace of the Lebanese lira’s collapse against the dollar is accelerating, after it reached over 80,000 pounds to the...
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Hanin Haidar Ahmad

Amel Association: Aiding the Elderly in Lebanon

Unable to afford basic necessities, cut off from their family… Here is a look into the dire situation of low-income...
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Ghida Ismail

Lebanon experiences the largest global losses in Human Development amidst its worst-ever financial crisis

A compounded crisis, consisting of an economic and financial crisis layered by the COVID-19 pandemic and a massive, deadly  explosion...
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Marijuana article: Syrian refugees work in cannabis field in Bekaa. (Patrick Baz / AFP / The Guardian)
Lynn Sheikh Moussa

Legalizing marijuana will not save the Lebanese economy

Who will benefit from legalizing marijuana? Similar to the tobacco industry, it most certainly is not the cannabis farmers.
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Samer Talhouk

Diab’s “painful measures” are not necessary, they’re a political choice

The expertise of a "technocratic" government is being used by politicians to pass new austerity measures that serve banks at the expense of the people.
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Passengers before going through security checks at Beirut's airport. (AFP/Alarabiya)
Samer Talhouk

Rethinking the role of remittances inflows in the Lebanese Economy

While economic research proved that remittances ease poverty, most studies failed to establish a causal relationship between them and economic growth. 
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Ali Tfaili

Is the US in a Recession and Why Should You Care?

The late Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman once said, “Inflation is just like alcoholism; in both cases, when you start...
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عامر شيباني

Qatar creates new job opportunities for Lebanese expats

Mere hours after Lebanon’s Ministry of Labor launched its platform to provide job opportunities for Lebanese youth in Qatar last...
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Antonia Williams

Amid coronavirus lockdown, Italy faces inklings of unrest

Authorities fear both that organized crime groups will exploit the crisis and that spontaneous revolts will result from growing livelihood concerns.
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Laudy Issa

IMF aid to Lebanon unlikely to come in anytime soon, says source

Getting an IMF loan is complicated. Lebanese officials need other solutions for the upcoming $1.2 billion due, said a source close to the IMF.
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IMF abstract header by Laudy Issa
Samer Talhouk

An IMF bailout would wreak havoc on Lebanon’s economy

The IMF failed to bring growth and economic stability for almost every country it bailed out.
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Mariam and her family, refugees in Lebanon. (Mercy Corps | Corinna Robbins)
Cynthia Saghir

Propagating a Hostile Narrative towards Syrian refugees is more harmful than helpful to the Lebanese economy

Lebanese politicians have taken Syrian refugees as the scapegoat for all the political, economic, social & environmental turmoil that predate their arrival. 
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