Lebanon’s economic downfall has had a devastating effect on the healthcare sector, which has been witnessing a steep shortage of medicines following the Banque du Liban’s decision to lift subsidies on medicines, amid shortage of foreign currency reserves in the country. Urgent measures are needed...
We continue our report on Lebanon. In our previous installment, we took a closer look at Lebanon’s banking sector and its underlying monetary system which has strong responsibility in the present financial crisis. Today Lebanon is one of the most indebted countries in the world,...
Corporate Governance, ESG / 11.09.2020
ESG issues in Beirut Blast
SVI start publishing today reports by Christina Lawandos on the current Lebanese situation from an ESG perspective. Christina is our contact in Lebanon, a local witness strongly engaged in sustainable topics. Unfortunately, what happened in Beirut has to do with very severe ESG topics: negligence,...
Infrastructure, Oil and Gas / 09.09.2020
Tensions in the Eastern Mediterranean area grow as Turkey and Greece are ready to exploit the region’s vast gas reserves
At SVI we reflect that traditional confrontation on oil and gas reserves has to be considered in the light of climate change risk and decarbonization trend of world economies. The awareness of such topics is still very low but geopolitics will need to be revisited...