Lebanon Opportunities is a monthly business magazine that covers: Finance, Real estate, Economy, and Local business. Lebanon Opportunities has tens of thousands of readers in Lebanon and across the globe. It is the prime local business magazine in Lebanon in terms of readership, advertising, and name-awareness. Lebanon Opportunities is written to a target of small business owners, entrepreneurs and middle management, as well as to Lebanese living abroad. It aims at bringing complex business issues in a simple manner understandable by readers who are not experts and whose English language is not the mother tongue.
LEBANON OPPORTUNITIES
I will survive
IN BRIEF TIDBITS
WHAT’S NEW LEADERSCLUB
BUSINESS
OFFICIAL BUSINESS
FINANCE
MATTERS OF FACT
PEOPLE ON THE MOVE
NEW BORN COMPANIES
PICKING UP THE PIECES • Blast losses | Aid and initiatives | Champions
Loss assessment
International Donor Conference in Paris • Funds managed by the United Nations
THANK YOU FOR YOUR
Art community fundraising initiatives
Fine arts Victim and rescuer
One third of street-level firms to be reopened by year-end • More than 70 blasted retailers back to operate their businesses
We are the champions • Unfazed by destruction, businesses are determined to survive
COVER STORY PICKING UP THE PIECES
Adapting against the odds • Success stories of facing adversity
Quod vide* response • Innovative products, solutions, and initiatives
Apartments replace bank deposits • Real estate transactions surged by 49 percent. New supply remains meager
Surge or decline in prices?
Investing in real estate shares
BUSINESS LAW
Caesar Act and its potential fallout
Importing electricity at stake
Mixed impact on smuggling
Exports by land are limited
Reconstruction services sanctioned in regime-controlled areas
Circulars issued are met with resistance and questions • Central Bank issues deadline for a recapitalization of banks
Missing the target • Circular to mitigate Covid-19 economic fallout flops
Calculation Details
Controversy surrounds repaying dollar loans in lira • The road to hell is paved with good intentions
GDP will shrink by more than 20 percent • Bank deposits continue to drop
Subsidies • The poor’s share is under 25 percent
Calculating the share of the poor in subsidized products
Economic Indicators • First Semester 2020
CALENDAR • INTERNATIONAL TRADE EXHIBITIONS AND CONFERENCES