Volume 4 - 2022

Lebanon Opportunities

Quarterly business magazine covering real estate, business, economy and finance

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Publisher & editor-in-chief Ramzi El Hafez Responsible manager Iman Chamas Editorial Shikrallah Nakhoul Sasha Matar Printing Photogravure Vartan sarl ■
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Same Way = Same Result
The current government – just like its predecessor – has focused most of its attention on the so-called ‘losses’ in the financial sector. It will be impossible to get stakeholders to agree on their amount and how they should be distributed. Especiall
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Soundbytes
From Deliberate Depression to Great Denial Titles of World Bank reports on Lebanon We call on policy makers to move forward… in order to avert the complete devastation of its social and economic networks The World Bank Lebanon’s challenges are deep a
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Almaza Back To The Family
Provided by Philippe Jabre, a Geneva-based Lebanese investor and founder of hedge funds and personal wealth management companies, has acquired the majority ownership stake of Heineken Group in Brasserie Almaza (Almaza). Both parties did not disclose
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What’s New Matters Of Fact
Provided by Freight activity at the Port of Beirut Port increased by almost two percent in 2021 to 4.6 million tons. The number of vessels dropped by 15 percent to 1,168. The handled containers had a total cargo capacity of 615 million TEUs (includin
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What’s New Business
Provided by CMA Terminals, a fullyowned subsidiary of the CMA CGM Group, has won a bid to manage, operate and maintain the container terminal of the Port of Beirut (PoB) for a ten-year period starting in March 2022. It has a target to handle 1.4 mill
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What’s New People On The Move
CEO of Fattal Former Chairman of the Board of Liban Post Khalil Daoud has jumped ship to become CEO of KFF (Khalil Fattal & Fils), one of the largest and most diversified wholesale traders in the country with a wide implementation in other countries.
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What’s New New Born Companies
Name Mondis Sal Capital (Shares) LL300,000,000 (30,000) Directors Noel Michel Abi-Nader (Chairman & Gen. Mgr), Ayda Lichah Abi-Nader, Patrick Michel Abi-Nader, Thierry Michel Abi-Nader, MAN Holding Sal (Holding) Reg. address 2nd Floor, Port 427 Sal P
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Potential Return To Modest Growth Amid Many Challenges
▶ Links: Click this article’s entry in ‘Table of Contents’ on our website | Global organizations ask for urgent reforms | World Bank slams the ‘Great Denial’ | High food prices mainly affect the poor The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund
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Supply Will Exceed Demand If Water Resources Are Well Exploited
▶ Links: Click this article’s entry in ‘Table of Contents’ on our website There are prospects for more projects in the water sector as exploitable water resources exceed demand and remain largely untapped. Insufficient investment and mismanagement of
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Initial Staff-level IMF Agreement Has Plenty Of Reform Strings Attached
▶ Links: Click this article’s entry in ‘Table of Contents’ on our website The government has reached a stafflevel agreement for a $3 billion financing facility from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) provided it undertakes several critical reforms
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IMF’s Crystal Ball What It Saw, Didn’t See, And When
Since the flare-up of the multiple crises, and even before that, a lot has been analyzed and written regarding the behavior, actions, and transgressions of actors in the fiscal and financial sectors. However, almost nothing has been mentioned on what
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Retrospective
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has published over the years, at the request of the Lebanese government, periodic reports on the economic, fiscal, and monetary conditions of the country, and also about the health of its financial sector. Typica
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Women In The Workforce
▶ Links: Click this article’s entry in ‘Table of Contents’ on our website A synthesis of a recent report published by The Central Administration of Statistics (CAS), and two others by UN Women, one in conjunction of the World Bank – International Fin
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High Risks Of Cyberattacks
▶ Links: Click this article’s entry in ‘Table of Contents’ on our website Private initiative to address vulnerabilities Vulnerabilities to cyberattacks are high amid lack of awareness and widespread carelessness but a private initiative and the forth
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Design And Creative Services Profit From Skilled Labor And Cost Advantage
▶ Links: Click this article’s entry in ‘Table of Contents’ on our website The design and creative services sector had been expanding before the beginning of the economic crisis. These services, which are a subsector of the Cultural and Creative Indus
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UNDP Highlights Promising Eco-friendly Ventures
The recently published ‘Lebanon-State of the Environment and Future Outlook (SOER)’ report by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) shows that hundreds of millions of dollars could be saved or generated by implementing environmentally frien
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Support To The Private Sector Is On The Rise
▶ Links: Click this article’s entry in ‘Table of Contents’ on our website Stimulating the private sector has become the most promising option to achieve economic recovery especially that foreign governments and international donor organizations have
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Projects And Application
▶ Turn to Project Directory (page 78) for more detail
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A Fatal Blow To The Economy
The proposed law does not only put restrictions on transfers abroad, but it also imposes strict controls on withdrawals by depositors from their lira and U.S. dollar accounts in Lebanese banks. The constraint on amounts withdrawn from deposits is by
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Banks’ Placements With The Central Bank
The ongoing debate across the country shows that the financial gap at the Central Bank (BDL) exceeds $55 billion taking into account the value of gold and BDL’s foreign currencies. The discourse in this regard often includes a lot of blame for the ba
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Recycling Has Potential For Growth
▶ Links: Click this article’s entry in ‘Table of Contents’ on our website Local companies that recycle paper and plastic waste are witnessing growing export prospects for their output. Some of them have entered new markets and are exploring other cou
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Project Directory
(2017 - Present) Agri-food specialist Soha Nasser (01) 533.040 Soha.nasser@beytech.org www.berytech.org/programs/agrytech/ Partner: Berytech Financial and technical support to agrifood SMEs and startups producing innovative food and beverage products
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Program Directory
Agri-Food & CleanTech Smart Innovation Hub Initiative (2021 – 2026) COO Berytech and Leader of the ACT Initiative: Ramy Boujawdeh (04) 533.040 ext. 2112 ramy.boujawdeh@berytech.org https://berytech.org/programs/act-smart-innovationhub-initiative/ › I

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