Lebanon in its Sub-Region: Beyond an Average Level of Development, Tremendous Inequalities

On the western edge of the Fertile Crescent, the land of Lebanon has for centuries been a crossroad and an interface between the West and the Near East and beyond. Open to many influences, the Lebanese society has developed demographic and economic specificities that have stimulated services and secured a major regional position for the country (finance, media, advertising, tourism) until the 1970s. However, its former attractive features have lastingly been jeopardized by its loss of competi...