The Lebanese Economy 2004 - 2005 and Hariri's Legacy
تاريخ النشر: 01/06/2005
الناشر: M.I. ASSOCIATES
نبذة الناشر:Survey reports such as this one are usually genaralized and sanitized. Typically, survey reports serve as references for securing data or concluding research.
This report is all that and much more. The addition is qualitative as it relates to the consequences of the assassination of Rafiq Hariri and the blooming rebirth ...of Lebanon as an independent country.
Hariri's legacy will be the road map for containment of Lebanon's economic problems. For this reason, an appendix has been added which provides the program for reform that Hariri presented to the Paris II Conference held in November 2002. Bassil Fuleihan, a brilliant young economist, former minister of economy and Member of Parliament, supervised the drafting of this program. He lost his life in consequence of the 14th of February 2005 assassination of Hariri.
Hariri's declared objectives and the Paris II paper constitue a program of reform that can be speeded up if there is broad agreement on action for administrative and political reform. We can only hope that such a change comes about.
Our report, in addition to summarizing objectives and required actions, treats with important sectors and/or agreements that are shaping the evolution of Lebanon.
Contributors to this report worked on areas of particular interest to them.
Marwan Iskandar worked on the Lebanese econmy and Hariri's legacy.
Ambassador Samir Khoury, who served Lebanon in Brussels, evaluated Lebanese and Syrian relations with the E.U.
Samir Nahas, an expert with the UNDP, who is delegated to help in the prime minister's office, completed the chapter on communications.
Fady Kanso, who is working on his doctorate at the University of Aix-Marseille (France), did his DEA in economics by completing a report on governance in Lebanon. In our report this year, he handled banking and electricity. In respect of electricity, former minister, Maurice Sehnaoui, provided some help and insight.
Finally, our senior research associate, Tony Saade, dealt with issues he follows on regularly; the budget, environment, industry and the external trade sector.
This report is the 25th in the yearly series we have worked on. It is to a certain extent different from previous reports because it was finally written in extraordinary times. إقرأ المزيد