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Economic Roadmap
Reading Time: 2 minutes This document—Economic Roadmap 3.0—is the most definitive Roadmap yet in Executive Magazine’s ongoing quest for providing a working platform for advancing the Lebanese economy....
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Corruption looms over all aspects of Lebanese life
Reading Time: 6 minutes Executive has long recognized the importance of fighting corruption as an essential step toward creating a strong economy for Lebanon. Both previous versions of Executive’s...
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Hard new looks at the tech ecosystem and its entrepreneurial future
Reading Time: 7 minutes Before the October 2019 uprising, it was not difficult to list unresolved questions and some outright disappointments with the way that the Lebanese entrepreneurship ecosystem...
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Reinventing Lebanese education for an uncertain future
Reading Time: 5 minutes The third discussion in Executive’s roundtable initiative was designed to cover a broad selection of topics—regarding health, education, and labor—under the banner of social...
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The search for a fairer, more redistributive tax system
Reading Time: 6 minutes The roundtable covered in this piece was dedicated to economic angles of fiscal reform and taxation. Thus, in the context of Executive’s mission and coverage focuses, both it...
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Transition scenarios and their bleak alternatives
Reading Time: 10 minutes For the roundtable on financial reality, monetary needs, and trade and energy issues, the discussion brief invited debate on the role and responsibility of the central bank,...
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Reflections during tumultuous times
Reading Time: 3 minutes The year-end holiday season is a time for self-reflection and goal setting. We at Executive are no different, and so as we prepare to bid 2019 goodbye, we are looking backward...
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Not so merry go-round
Reading Time: 7 minutes 2016 October 20 Saad Hariri endorses presidential bid of Michel Aoun. October 31 Aoun, backed by Hezbollah, is elected president of Lebanon, ending a two-year stalemate....
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People outclass politicians on women’s rights, expression rights, and...
Reading Time: 9 minutes The fourth discussion in Executive’s roundtable initiative was comprised of two broad topics: access to rights, with particular focus on the rights of women, and access to...
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Lebanon’s 2020 budget fails to address the financial crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes The 2020 budget was expected to be a main pillar of the multifaceted crisis management plan that citizens have taken to the streets to demand. In reality, it fails to meet the...
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The US approach to Hezbollah and the new Lebanese government
Reading Time: 3 minutes The United States’ approach to Lebanon seeks to reconcile two often conflicting policies: supporting the Lebanese state, army, and government, while pursuing a maximum pressure...
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An investigation into the revenues from Lebanon’s seismic data
Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the major obstacles that post-war Lebanon has faced is the absence of adequate transparency tools that, if there, would have lead to greater public accountability. Access...
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The resilient brain
Reading Time: 4 minutes IN BRIEF Resilience can be learned and developed.The brain adopts different strategies to cope with stress.There are ways to improve individual resilience during political...
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Recent investments in property benefits Lebanese real estate developers and...
Reading Time: 6 minutes IN BRIEF Prior to October 17, 2019, the real estate market was suffering from high developer debt and low interest rates on deposits.Lack of trust in banks has since then lead...
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How Lebanese entrepreneurs can survive the liquidity crisis
Reading Time: 5 minutes IN BRIEF The liquidity crisis requires immediate attention and will likely result in an IMF program, with consequences for poorer Lebanese.In the short term, an IMF-backed loan...
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Going virtual to survive Lebanon’s financial crisis
Reading Time: 3 minutes IN BRIEF The virtual working model benefits employers and employees.It has the potential to foster decentralized economic growth.It can be a shield for businesses in times of...
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Those responsible for attacks on the press must be held accountable
Reading Time: 3 minutes Journalists were among the most active in documenting the Lebanese protests, according to our Lebanon Protests open-data platform. This role has put members of the press at...
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In pictures: Day 101 of the uprising
Reading Time: < 1 minute On Saturday January 25, protesters came back out in the hundreds to mark over 100 days of the Lebanese uprising, with marches held throughout the city congregating in...
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In pictures: Protests against the new government
Reading Time: < 1 minute On Tuesday, February 11, Downtown Beirut saw clashes between security forces and hundreds of protesters who had gathered to block access to Parliament ahead of a vote of...
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The case for Lebanon restructuring its debt
Reading Time: 3 minutes Lebanon’s economic vulnerabilities are on full display. Investors and other stakeholders have lost confidence in the Lebanese financial system, triggering an existential...
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