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Proposition of law instituting a pension system in Lebanon

June 2006 This proposition of law has been presented by a group of MP’s from the “Block of Change and Reform” in June 2006. The text integrates the previous formulations on the same subject, since Hoss’s Government in 2000, going through the Ministerial Commissions set up by the various Hariri’s Governments under the chairmanship of […]

Readings in the destruction and orientations for reconstruction

August 2006 Orientation document on the reconstruction in Lebanon after the Israeli aggression in July 2006. The text has been written while the combats were still going on and the field teams were trying to assess the extent of the damage caused by the Israelis. It aims at formulating a strategy for reconstruction that could […]

Exploring Lebanon’s Growth Prospects

Jean-Claude Berthelemy,Sebastien Dessus & Charbel Nahas World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, number 4332 August 2007 This paper attempts to identify Lebanon ’ s greatest constraints to economic growth, following a growth diagnosis approach. It concludes that fiscal imbalances and barriers to entry are most binding on long-term growth. Macroeconomic imbalances and related perceived […]

Discussion and Approval of the National Budget in Iraq

Document presented to the Iraqi Members of Parliament, within the UNDP “Program on Governance in the Arab Region” December 2007 The paper is destined for the Iraqi MPs and aims at illustrating the central place of fiscal choices in the economy but also, and mainly, in the consolidation of the functional legitimacy of the state, […]

Syria: Fiscal Policy Perspectives

  The paper aims at analyzing the fiscal situation in Syria in order to help in the formulation of possible alternatives of fiscal policies. Beside their specific technicalities and constraints, fiscal options are approached as being a direct reflection of more general choices regarding the role of the state in managing the social and political […]

Migration and Education Decisions in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Framework

Sebastien Dessus and Charbel Nahas World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, number 4775 With growing international skilled labor mobility, education and migration decisions have become increasingly inter-related, and potentially have a large impact on the growth trajectories of source countries, through their effects on labor supply, savings, or the cost of education. The authors […]