Banque du Liban preparing digital currency launch next year
Can the Banque du Liban really find a good solution to extinguish all the criticism? As part of a broader push to combat the financial crisis that has engulfed Lebanon, the country’s...
Agriculture in Lebanon: The glimmer of hope?
Lebanon should not avoid all the laws of gravity. As elsewhere in the world, agriculture should be the backbone for our country since it caters to the most basic human need of...
Food security: Lessons to be learnt from Covid-19
Let's put our food security on the table. The outbreak of the coronavirus which emerged from China’s Wuhan and has spread the world over has caused phenomenal economic damage across economies in...
Covid-19: Lebanon staring at historic opportunity
Could the COVID-19 outbreak be an opportunity for the Lebanese economy? The “Arab Spring” which was earlier seen as the most disruptive event which shook the Middle East to its core since...
Lebanon: The next ‘oil-cursed’ country?
Late last month, a drillship anchored off Lebanon's coast started exploring for oil and gas raising hopes for a more prosperous economy, which currently is hanging by a thread off a cliff’s...
Yasmine Seghirate el-Guerrab on food security: “We must ensure the health of the soil...
ByTheEast: International medias talk a lot about "food security" lately. What does it imply specially in the Mediterranean region?
Yasmine Seghirate el-Guerrab: Food security in the region is...
What future for Egypt’s new capital city?
Egypt's new capital is not a mirage in the desert anymore. But still. It's far from being completed. Forging new capitals from scratch ain't a new phenomenon: countries are used to build...
(Failed) State of emergency
"All these accidents that happen follow the dots", the songs says. Lebanese deep crisis is no exception. Except nothing here is accidental. This is no bad luck, only bad choices. Here we...
Lebanon: Railway would boost economic growth
Lebanon's sick from its atmospheric pollution, sick from its overpopulated highways, sick from its lack of alternatives. Yet, the patient should get some effective treatments. Like establishing a railway network which will...
How nomadism made Africa a land of disruptive innovation
Mobility, innovation and stability, three of the most important civilizational factors in economic development, are not calibrated the same way in every region of the world. Mary McAuliffe reports on the specific...