The paper argues that new technologies allow small and medium enterprises in developing countries, especially those with “ethnic” or “nostalgic” merchandise, to carve a niche for their products in the international market. Taking e-commerce in baklava production as an example, this study...

This paper investigates the similarities between the economy of 1912 Mount Lebanon on the eve of the famine of 1916 and the economy of 2004 Lebanon that set the stage for the major economic and social crisis of 2019. A simple general equilibrium simulation shows that, as long as the Lebanese...

After a few months of operation, the Special Tribunal for Lebanon has already rendered a number of important orders. They provide the outline of some of the new challenges, which the Court is set to confront, but also offer clear insight into the general legal philosophy that underpins this new...