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Director, Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut
Areas of Interest:
- International Economics
- Monetary Economics
- Development and Middle East Economics
Education:
- Ph.D., Economics, Columbia University, USA
- M.A., Economics, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
- B.A., Economics, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Experience:
- Director, Institute of Financial Economics, American University of Beirut, present
- Deputy President, American University of Beirut, 1993-1998
- Minister of Economy and Trade, Lebanon, 1992
Latest Publications:
- (Editor and contributor (with I. Elbadawi) , Democracy in the Arab World: Explaining the Deficit,(Routledge, 2011); translated into Arabic and published by the Center for Arab Unity Studies, Beirut, 2011).
- -- ( 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, 2011)
- --( with M. Marktanner) “Precarious Consociationalism: Lebanon’s Predicament in Promoting Development”, in K.R.Roy, A. Medhekar and H.Chittoo (eds.), Globalization and Development: Country Experiences ( Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2010)
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