The case of online delivery workers in Lebanon echoes the need for a universal social protection floor and a revision of the Lebanese labor code to guarantee the rights of emerging employment statuses.  Read more

Georgia Dagher and Sami Zoughaib dive deeper into Lebanon's social crisis and the ways forward.  Read more

In light of the country’s accumulating crises, the importance of adopting the National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS), the grounds for a rights-based social protection system, has become crucial.  Read more

Cynthia Saghir and Wassim Maktabi echo the need for a rights-based social protection system bound by an orderly fiscal framework Read more

Sami Zoughaib and Cynthia Saghir explore Lebanon’s fragmented and ineffective social insurance system Read more

Sami Zoughaib discusses detrimental effects of the current social protection landscape on the social contract in Lebanon. Read more

Wassim Maktabi, Sami Zoughaib, and Sami Atallah investigate how the delay in the ESSN was linked to attempts of the political class to capture the program, played off as “administrative blunders”. Read more

Sami Zoughaib and Wassim Maktabi examine how BdL was effectively “subcontracted” as a social assistance provider through an ill-conceived exchange rate subsidy operation that depleted its foreign reserves and regressively benefited large importers and wealthier cash holders. Meanwhile, a fraction of the amount depleted could have funded a social protection floor estimated to cost around $500 million annually. Read more

In this article, Sami Zoughaib and Sami Atallah delve into the critical fiscal reforms necessary for Lebanon's National Social Protection Strategy (NSPS), which was launched in February 2024.  Read more