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Despite his hard-line public stance, Iran and the P5+1 powers (permanent UNSC five members plus Germany) appear on track to reach a final agreement on Iran's nuclear programme…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB200543
ISSN: 2633-304X
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This is having highly negative economic and social consequences, with problematic implications for long-term growth and stability. The country’s already extreme inequality is…
The GCLW is the traditional umbrella organisation for Lebanese trade unions, but has long been seen as too close to the political authorities. It has been increasingly outflanked…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB230132
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According to its Global Economic Prospects report, the bank forecast a modest increase in GDP growth in 2015 to 2.0%, up from an estimated 1.5% in 2014. Since 2011, the economy…
Prospects for Middle Eastern oil economy to end-2022.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB270989
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The pandemic has compounded existing economic and political crises in Beirut and Baghdad, with the securitisation of the response straining military and state legitimacy…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB254157
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Solar energy use in Lebanon, Syria and Iraq is being driven from the grassroots up or through foreign aid. Its growth is a practical response to intermittent electricity supplies…
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB274883
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Mental health problems in Lebanon.
Lower global oil prices contributing to new tensions in both oil-producing and oil-importing countries.
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DOI: 10.1108/OXAN-DB216996
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The government is struggling to agree a budget that will allow an increase in public-sector salaries, financed by higher taxes and duties. If passed, it would be the first budget…