Lebanon hosts the highest number of refugees per capita worldwide and is central to
European policies of outsourcing migration management. Hybrid Political Order and the …

Forty years ago, Salim Nasr identified a “crisis of Lebanese capitalism” as a “backdrop” to
the country's civil war. Thirty years after Taif, Lebanese capitalism is facing another crisis …

I combine household surveys, national accounts and unique personal income tax records to
produce the first estimates of the national income distribution in an Arab country, Lebanon. I …

Displacement is underway in Lebanon after financial collapse, but not as events of
migration, rather, as processual disruption to people's lives that begins in place, preceding …

For nearly a century, the absence of ethical norms within Lebanese political circles
encouraged the practice of corruption that transformed the praxis into an unparalleled art …

What happens when a country, a population, or at least a segment thereof, navigates in a
permanent state of crisis that becomes normalised into their everyday? Engaging with this …

Using firm-level data, we document that politically connected firms (PCFs) create more jobs
than unconnected firms in Lebanon. We observe, however, that the presence of PCFs in a …

ABSTRACT The World Bank‐funded Bisri Dam in Lebanon represents an emblematic case
of a high‐modernist project that has foundered on a mix of hydrogeological recalcitrance …

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY A 'triple crisis' initiated by the popular uprising on 17 October 2019,
followed by defaulting on Eurobond payments on 7 March 2020, and then the outbreak of …

This paper addresses the lack of data and limited statistical capacity in the Middle East and
North Africa, particularly amid Lebanon's economic collapse. We apply a novel data …