Health encapsulates economic activity that amounts to trillions of dollars by the—in this context crude—methodology of collating production of goods and services as gross domestic product (GDP). The ...

The brutal war in Syria has had a devastating effect on the country and significant spillover into Lebanon and other neighboring countries, most intensely between 2012 and 15. Entering the 2000s with ...

Since its first edition emerged on the newsstands in 1999, Executive Magazine has been dedicated to providing its readers with the most up-to-date local and regional business news. Executive is a ...

Sustainable tourism is one important vertical under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 8, for achieving decent work and economic growth. While the clock is ticking hazardously for ...

Lebanon stands today not only at the edge of economic collapse but also at the center of a profound governance crisis. The financial meltdown that began in 2019 unveiled structural failures in public ...

With Lebanon going through hyperinflation, some economists have deemed the establishment of a currency board (CB) necessary to help curb inflation. To better assess the possible establishment of a CB, ...

What social and economic science often calls a shock event is something that heavily impacts the moment but transpires into much more consequential long-term changes of the previous status quo. These ...

Public transport is part of Lebanon’s mobility heritage, as is evident by our popular culture. In the song entitled “Ala Hadir el-Bosta,” the late Joseph Sakr sings of his love Alia’s pretty eyes ...

This article is part of ongoing Executive coverage with members of the Lebanese Private Sector Network on sectoral impacts of and responses to the 70-day September 2024 war on Lebanon. In the wake of ...

Creating and empowering an independent, strong, fair, transparent, and accountable regulatory and supervisory institution is, by experience of virtually all countries with a thriving ...

The municipal elections of May 2025, in which three out of four geographically determined rounds have been completed by time of this writing, suggest that the country’s mosaic of highly nuanced local ...

It is self-explanatory that the war on Lebanon has affected extant education systems badly. For different providers in the country’s fragmented educational landscape – one that has long been flagged ...