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Lebanon’s dysfunctional political economy
By Ishac Diwan - Jul 28,2020
PARIS — Lebanon’s economy has collapsed. There is little confusion about why or what is needed to save it. The question is why nothing has been done.For the last two decades, Lebanon had been living off capital inflows, averaging 20 per cent of GDP per year.
Lebanon’s perfect storm
By Ishac Diwan - Jan 11,2020
BEIRUT — In retrospect, financial crises usually appear predetermined; but rarely do they offer much clarity about history’s direction.
The emancipation gap in Arab education
By Ishac Diwan - Apr 12,2016
Discussion of education in the Arab world has focused only rarely on the role of schooling in changing social and political mores.This is unfortunate, because educated citizens of Arab countries tend to be much less emancipated politically and socially, on average, than their pee


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