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