The Beiruter

Lebanon’s Social Security Fund begins major reforms to restore benefits, introduce pensions, improve governance, and modernize social protection systems.

France’s €135 million in support to Lebanon in 2025 targeted essential services, highlighting the challenge of turning international aid into lasting economic recovery.

From wartime savings to everyday payments, Lebanon’s relationship with the dollar has lasted for decades. This article reveals how instability, banking crises, and loss of trust turned the US currency from a safety net into a permanent part of Lebanese life.

Lebanon’s draft Financial Gap Law promises to repay depositors in full, but the market, a hostage negotiation and the central bank’s own balance sheet have already priced the same claim between 12 and 18 percent, and at those rates the promise is worth a fifth of its face value.

Southern Lebanon’s losses go beyond $1.3 billion in physical damage, as war has disrupted businesses, agriculture, jobs and investment, making economic recovery dependent on stability, reconstruction and rebuilding trust.

Banks are experimenting with tokenized deposits that could make money faster and easier to transfer, but the same technology could challenge the stability of deposits that banks rely on to fund lending.

Lebanon’s long-awaited pension reform promises a lifetime retirement income for workers, but its success depends on implementing 14 pending decrees, building the system’s institutions, and ensuring the state can turn the reform from a legal text into real social protection.

As Lebanon’s back-to-school costs soar, families face thousands of dollars in supplies, transportation and tuition while teachers remain underpaid and schools struggle to collect fees.

AI may reshape or replace millions of jobs, but growing global labor shortages suggest it could also help fill skills gaps, create new roles and transform how humans work.

Renewed conflict has derailed Lebanon’s fragile economic recovery, with the World Bank warning of recession, rising inflation, mounting reconstruction costs, and urgent reforms.

From multimillion-dollar pay packages to corporate deals that deliver entire research teams, competition for elite AI talent is beginning to resemble the transfer market of professional sports.