Capital inflows to developing countries have expanded rapidly in recent years a nd created macroeconomic management problems for some countries. The benefits an d costs of capital-account liberalization are considered, ...
Lebanon has been experiencing relatively low growth rates since the early 1990s mainly because foreign direct investment and portfolio investment flows ha ve been low to all developing countries in general and especially ...
Post-civil war Lebanon is marked by large central executive authority, governed by confessional consensus, and by intensive public spending justified for the co untry's reconstruction. However, this growth in public ...
Foreign inflows have increased worldwide in the last two decades. Whatever their nature is, these inflows are having structural effects on the recipient economi es. However, there is a controversy over the nature of the ...
The purpose of this research is to understand the context of evolution of the na tural resource management system in Mount Lebanon of Lebanon during the period 1 935 ? 2005. It has succeeded in validating the hypothesis ...
Kleptocrats are rulers who implement highly inefficient economic policies, expro priate the wealth of citizens, and use the proceeds for their own glorification or consumption. The first chapter of this project includes a ...
Economic growth in Lebanon went through three stages in the last four decades: a stage of economic growth in the pre- war period between 1960 and 1974 , a stage of economic slowdown followed by destruction in the war period ...
For most countries, the choice of exchange rate regime is the most important decision of economic policy. This is justified since the exchange rate is a variable that determines both the flow of trade of goods and services ...
This thesis deals with the public debt problem in Lebanon. In the postwar period, the Lebanese government increased its indebtedness from a level inferior to US 3 billion Dollars to almost US 3 I billion Dollars by the end ...
The impact of the July 2006 war on Lebanon has recently received significant att ention from economists and policy makers. The Israeli military campaign that hit Lebanon on July 12, 2006 jeopardized the country's recovery ...
A predetermining component for economic growth and worth through the physical capital accumulation and the cross border direct investment is the real estate market. Therefore, the valuation for an asset of such high caliber ...