Ziad Abdel Samad

 نشرت في دورية شبكة المنظمات العربية غير الحكومية للتنمية  تناولت خطة الحكومة للتعافي والتي نُشرت مطلع العام الجاري عددا من القضايا فائقة الأهمية تساهم في إطلاق حوار مطلوب حول سبل وقف الانهيار والخروج من الازمة. بالمقابل، ركزت معظم الردود على أبرز الثغرات فيها لا سيما تلك المتعلقة بالتمويل، وهو أساسا موضوع شائك خاصة عند الغوص في تفاصيله. تنطلق الخطة من ضرورة تغطية الخسائر الفادحة التي تكبدتها المالية العامة ومصرف لبنان والمصارف التجارية الخاصة، فتسير باتجاه اعفاء الدولة من مسؤولياتها من خلال شطب ديونها، او جزء منها، وتحميل المواطنين، وبشكل أساسي المودعين، والمصارف العبء الأكبر لتلك الخسائر. كما تقترح الخطة التقشف في الانفاق العام من خلال وقف او تقليص دعم القطاعات الأساسية كالطاقة والنقل والصحة والتعليم والسلع الغذائية الأساسية وكذلك كتلة رواتب واجور العاملين في القطاع العام. تتوقف هذه المقالة عند مسألتين أساسيتين، الأولى هي تمويل خطة التعافي والثانية تتعلق بالجهة التي تضعها. ومن ثم تدعو الى اعتماد المقاربة التنموية الشاملة كمدخل لوقف الانهيار ومعالجة الازمة. ولكن، وقبل ذ...

  The statue was offered by the young artist Ahlam Al Nazer from the remains of shattered glass, in the occasion of the first year of the revolution and commemorating the victims of the port explosion. The Beirut Blast of August 4 is the manifestation of the major governance failure of the state institutions.  Both Corruption and negligence disabled the main agencies from doing their job properly; even the reaction and the response of the state agencies indicated the extent to which the public institutions are paralyzed and dysfunctional, there was no coordination, weak responsiveness and lack of a clear vision. Thanks to the local and international civil society and global agencies and the coordination led by the UN agencies, people managed to get the minimum required needs and recovery.  It is worth mentioning, that the bar association with other syndicates (contractors, engineers, auditors, etc.) managed also to play a coordination role, mainly in assessing th...

http://www.annd.org/data/file/files/Progress%20Report%202019%20EG%20Online.pdf Beirut, January 2020 The year 2019 saw major events unfolding at the international and regional levels, perhaps the most important of which was the eruption of protest movements across the world, from Latin America to Asia, Africa, and the Arab region, raising common demands under the same title: Social Justice. At a minimum, they expressed the failure of prevailing policies since the turn of the century, those of brutal neoliberalism, austerity, and the dominance of the current financial system, which allows an unfettered flow of capital, the existence of tax paradises, and the spread of tax evasion. The above policies led to the exacerbation of the social and economic crisis, increased the concentration of wealth in the hand of the %1, and led to the deterioration of the conditions of more than %60 of the population. An Oxfam report released at the end of 2019 goes further and says that %82 of the world...

  The explosion on the 4th of August was heard in Cyprus and felt in Jordan, where it registered an earthquake of 4.4 magnitude. It was considered the third strongest explosion after Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a result of several factors, which could be seen as a precursor and a cause.   First was the stifling economic crisis that began in the summer of 2016, but worsened in the summer of 2019.  Lebanon began to suffer from a deficit in the budget, the treasury, and the balance of payments. Speculations on currency prices returned for the first time since 1993. The situation required radical reforms to stop waste and adopt measures to control public spending and boost imports, in addition to obtaining financing from abroad in the form of investments, grants, loans, or foreign transfers. Two international conferences were devoted to donors in Paris. The first was held in March 2018, on the eve of the parliamentary elections, and the second in December 2019, when the IM...