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UNDP and Executive Magazine partner to advance dialogue on addressing...
Reading Time: 2 minutes Beirut, 20 August 2020 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Executive Magazine, Lebanon’s premier economic, financial, and business magazine, are today...
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Executive is hiring!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Sections and Social Media Editor Executive Magazine is looking to hire a new sections and social media editor starting September 1. The new sections and social media editor will...
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Reversing the Trend of Emotional Lows: The Case of the Beirut Explosion
Reading Time: < 1 minute “The impact of a traumatic event of this intensity and scale goes well beyond what the eye can see. It is therefore important to acknowledge that victims of this traumatic...
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Lebanon’s Last Chance to Preserve and Create Jobs, is Now
Reading Time: 6 minutes In the context of Lebanon’s existential crisis, Executive inquired about the country’s new economic and social barriers – a mountain of problems formed around a nexus of...
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LEBANON 2020: URBAN POVERTY
Reading Time: 2 minutes People who not long ago were comfortably middle-class urban dwellers, find themselves thrown into poverty this year, to the point of relying on NGO-provided food aid. From the...
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LABOR IN LEBANON
Reading Time: 3 minutes Executive Magazine is honored to present our readers with a special report on the issue of Lebanon’s labor market, job creation, and the policymaking and financing solutions...
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Politics and the labor market
Reading Time: 5 minutes I first came to Lebanon in the late 1990s to lead a development organization’s mission on labor and social protection. Since then, a lot has happened: in 2000, Israel pulled...
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Five imperatives the new government will need to tackle to create jobs
Reading Time: 4 minutes A second wave of Covid-19 is now battering Lebanon, a country reeling from an unprecedented financial and economic crisis, and still grappling with post-port explosion...
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The Knowledge Economy
Reading Time: 5 minutes When I was appointed Minister of State for Investments and Technology (MSIT) in February 2019, I was thrilled to champion the most promising and vibrant economic sector in...
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Industry: Its role and perspective in Lebanon’s economic growth
Reading Time: 4 minutes The manufacturing industry is a core engine of economic growth for developed and developing countries; a fact reconfirmed by recent studies. On this premise, it is natural that...
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Boosting the Lebanese Food Industry to Preserve and Create Jobs
Reading Time: 3 minutes The Lebanese food industrial sector is capable of supplying most of the basic products that were imported into Lebanon before the onset of the 2019/2020 crisis. The sector’s...
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The untold story of the last 12 months
Reading Time: 4 minutes Lebanon is not a country by any easy definition. Whatever your preference in terminology, when talking about a community of people in terms of country or nation there are...
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Pyromaniacs
Reading Time: 2 minutes The discourse of the reformist groups has changed after the massive August 4 explosion. The depth of hatred, spite, corruption and incompetence we are dealing with, embodied by...
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Full interview with investment expert Romen Mathieu
Reading Time: 10 minutes In the context of Lebanon’s existential crisis, Executive inquired about the country’s new economic and social barriers – a mountain of problems formed around a nexus of...
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SAMA HOSPITALITY VENTURES Farm-to-Table at Scale
Reading Time: 5 minutes From farming to hospitality Sama Hospitality Ventures (SHV) started off as an idea to make commercial use of co-founders’ Ali and Omar El Mais’ late father’s land in Bekaa...
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LEBANON 2020: URBAN POVERTY
Reading Time: 2 minutes People who not long ago were comfortably middle-class urban dwellers, find themselves thrown into poverty this year, to the point of relying on NGO-provided food aid. From the...
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Alternative medicine spikes
Reading Time: 11 minutes Alternative medicine has been sitting in the shadow of traditional, Western medicine for some time in Lebanon: alternative medicine. Though it is not controversial, alternative...
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Health care infrastructure under pressure
Reading Time: 6 minutes Long seen as the health care centre of the Middle East due to its developed hospital infrastructure and presence of heavily qualified medical personnel, Lebanon may well lose...
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Drug money
Reading Time: 12 minutes What a difference in perception a year makes – especially this year of 2020, and especially in all matters concerning health, directly or indirectly. Let’s assume – very...
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Organic care and true beauty niches
Reading Time: 16 minutes The global cosmetic and personal care market is growing, the upward swing especially boosting companies that produce organic and sustainable products. The specificity of new...
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