Commentary
The biggest obstacle to refugees economic success is not a lack of compassion — but a set of broken markets. That is the central argument...
Is it naïve to write about peace, reconstruction, and recovery at a time when the Middle East is engulfed in a renewed cycle of violence,...
After fifteen years of civil war, in the early 1990s, Lebanon adopted a real estate–led recovery strategy for Beirut’s downtown through Solidere. Infrastructure was rebuilt,...
A long-simmering crisis in Yemen between former anti-Houthi allies Saudi Arabia and the UAE finally erupted in open clashes on December 30, 2025. Fighting between...
Since the turn of the new millennium, territorial disparities in real returns to labor have increased in many advanced and developing countries, influencing migration patterns...
As 2026 unfolds, the landscape of post-conflict reconstruction is being reshaped by the growing prominence of private investment alongside traditional public donor commitments. The surge...
In the year since the ouster of the Assad regime, Syrians remain mostly hopeful having thrown out a brutal dictatorship, secured US, European, Regional and Russian recognition...
Many developing countries have invested heavily in expanding access to technology in hopes of boosting children’s educational outcomes. Despite these significant public and private commitments,...
Remember John Lennon singing “Imagine there’s no countries, it isn’t hard to do, nothing to kill of die for”. He did have a point: Aggressive...
