Finance Ministry

The Ministry of Finance Still Stuck in the Paper Age

Liliane Mokbel, 27/06 15:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Finance Ministry Yassin Jaber Digitalization Economy Lebanon

Finance Minister Yassine Jaber has announced a $6 million allocation from the Lebanon Financing Facility (LFF) to modernize tax and land registry systems and support the ministry’s ongoing reform and digital transformation efforts. Established in December 2020 under the World Bank’s guidance following the Beirut port explosion, the LFF is a ...

Finance Ministry Responds as Garbage Crisis Resurfaces

This is Beirut, 09/06 12:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Lebanon Finance Ministry Beirut Mount Lebanon Waste garbage

As mounting piles of uncollected garbage reappear in several districts of Beirut and Mount Lebanon, the long-standing controversy over the state’s management of the waste sector has flared up once again. At the center of the debate are delayed payments to the companies responsible for waste collection, treatment, and landfill operations, delays ...

Taif Agreement Carries No Provision of Monopoly on Ministerial Portfolios

Bassam Abou Zeid, 24/01 13:17 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Amal Hezbollah Taif agreement Finance Ministry government

For some in Lebanon, everything takes precedence over the law and the Constitution. Terms such as the National Pact, consensus, custom or even the “minutes of the Taif Agreement” are frequently misused to justify allocating the Ministry of Finance to the Shiite duo Amal-Hezbollah. This is not the first time the minutes of the Taif Agreement ...

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