After many years of civil war, which completely paralyzed the Lebanese economy and demolished the local businesses, it was not before the early 90's that Lebanon started the process of reconstructing the local economy. It has succeeded into fostering one of the most advanced commercial banking sectors in the region. For the poor in need of funds, banks were not the best answer to where they could resolve, thus the microfinance movement emerged to become the great innovation in financial intermediation that reduces the costs and risks of lending to poor house-holds. We will tackle the MFI program ...

Purpose – With the growing importance accorded to the subject of Lebanese Emigration, many studies have discussed the impact of the emigrants' contributions to Lebanon on the social and economic levels, notably remittances. Fewer studies have discussed the effect of political instability factors on the flow of these remittances; therefore this thesis will study the impact of several political risk components on expatriates remittances to Lebanon between 1985 and 2016 while taking into consideration other factors in Lebanon and in a host country like deposit interest rate and growth rate. Desi ...

Purpose: The purpose of the study is to gauge the Lebanese experts' perceptions with regard to the Syrian refugees' impact on the Lebanese economy and to extract accordingly appropriate suggestions for the purpose of managing the expatriates' presence effectively. Design/Methodology/Approach: The research is qualitative and mostly inductive in nature; it uses thirty semi-structured interviews, emerging from the service, public and manufacturing sector and analyzes them in a thematic framework to unfold the Lebanese experts' perception of Syrian refugees' impact on the economy. Findings: Results ...