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Two women in Lebanon's capital Beirut have founded a non-profit grocery store that offers goods at affordable prices. But their bigger vision is to break down political and religious segregation.

Lebanon’s human capital is in a state of crisis, both at the school and higher education levels. This state threatens to impede long term growth, as well as human capital development. The webinar will discuss the current state of the education sector in Lebanon, focusing on how the crisis has affected the sector, and propose policy recommendations to help bring the sector back on its feet.

Many states across the Middle East and North Africa meet the criteria for food insecurity, experts said at a US Institute of Peace event.

Minister of Labor Moustafa Bayram received on Tuesday MP Nicolas Nahas | Lebanon News

National poverty targeting and employment programs September 12, 2018 The conquest of poverty is a core target of the World Bank. Even as it often is viewed—or maligned—as an instrument of capitalism and capitalist interests, the World Bank’s focus on poverty alleviation and on achieving the United Nations’ sustainable development goals means that the multilateral institution has a strong role to play wherever countries struggle with poverty. In Lebanon, efforts to overcome poverty are ...

Re-globalization of macro-social responsibility Photo Credit : Greg Demarque Due to a combination of emergency needs and years of efforts, Lebanon has at the beginning of the year signed off with the World Bank on a USD 246 million loan for implementation of an Emergency Crisis and Covid-19 Response Social Safety Net project, or Emergency Social Safety Net (ESSN) for short [Editor’s note: the loan was voted upon on March 12th by the Lebanese Parliament]. Following more than a decade in which...