Administrative Experience
Director, Institute of Financial
Economics, 1984 -2007
Member of Board Directors, Global Development
Network, 2000 - 2008
Deputy
president, American University of Beirut, 1993-1998(Recipient of the American University of Beirut Medal for distinguished service to the University, 1998)
Chair, Board of Trustees, Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran, and Turkey (1993-2001)
Member of Board of Directors, Global Development
Network, 2000 - 2008 Member of the Steering Committee, Forum of Euro-Mediterranean Economic Institutes (FEMISE), 1999
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Minister of Economy and Trade, 1992
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Recent and Forthcoming Publications
Books
Forthcoming
(co-edited with I. Elbadawi), Democracy
in the Arab World: Explaining the Deficit
(with I. Elbadawi), "Explaining the Arab
Democracy Deficit: The Role of Oil and conflict", forthcoming in I. Elbadawi
and S. Makdisi (eds), Democracy in the Arab World: Explaining the
Deficit, (Routledge, 2010).
(with F, Kiwan and M. Marktanner), " Lebanon:
The Constrained Democracy and Its National Developmental Impact",
forthcoming in I. Elbadawi and S. Makdisi (eds), Democracy in the Arab
World: Explaining the Deficit, (Routledge, 2010).
Recent:
The Lessons of Lebanon: the economics of war and development, London IB Tauris (2004) Translated into Arabic and published by Dar Annahar, Beirut, December 2004. (Recipient of the Suad Al Sabbah First Prize award for 2005
for published work in Arabic in the Social Sciences).
Articles
Forthcoming
"Impact of the International Financial
Crisis on growth in the Arab Countries" : Arab Planning Institute.
"The obstacles to Arab Economic
Integration: Factors that Underlie the Lack of Political Will", Alexandria
Library.
Recent ( since 2005)
"Precarious Consociationalism: Lebanon's
Predicament in Promoting Development", K. Roy, and A. Medhekar
(eds.), Readings in World Development, Globalization and Development:
Country Experiences, Nova Scientific Publishers, New York, 2009
(with M. Marktanner)
"Trapped by Consociationalism: The Case of
Lebanon", Topics in Middle Eastern and North African
Economies, V. 11, Middle East Economic Association and Loyola University
Chicago, September 2009 (with M. Marktanner).
"Development Against All Odds? The Case of
Lebanon", Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, V.4, Issue
2008 (with M. Marktanner)
"Rebuilding Without Resolution: The Lebanese
Economy and State in the Post-Civil War Period", L. Binder (ed.), Rebuilding of Devastated Economies in the Middle East. (Palgrave/Macmillan,
2007)
"Explaining the Democracy
Deficit in the Arab World", The Quarterly Review of Economics and
Finance - V. 46, Issue 5, February 2007 (with I. Elbadawi).
"The Arab/Israeli Conflict and the Question of
Democracy in the Arab World", in the Middle East: Issues and Conflicts,
Institute of Political Science, St. Joseph University, (Beirut, 2007/08).
i "The
Determinants of Economic Growth in the MENA Region", J. Nugent and H.
Pesaran (eds), Explaining Growth in the Middle East (North
Holland/Elsevier, Contributions to Economic Analysis Series), V. 278,
December 2006 (with I. Limam and Z. Fattah).
"The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990", P. Collier and N. Sambanis (eds), Understanding Civil
War: Evidence and Analysis, vs I and II , The World Bank, 2005 (With
R. Sadaka),.
"Modernity and the Modernization of the
Arab Economies", in G., Tarabishi (ed), Modernity and Arab
Modernity", published by Arab Institute of Modern Thought, (Beirut
2005).
"Development of Financial Markets in the Arab World" in
the Financial Sector and Economic Growth, the Arab Monetary Fund, 2005.
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