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Dr. Leila Dagher is the Founding Director of the Center for Policy Action and Associate Professor of Economics and Policy at the Lebanese American University (LAU), and has been an adjunct lecturer at the George Washington University since 2016. Before joining LAU, Dr. Dagher had taught for 15 years at the American University of Beirut with several visiting stints, including at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory.
Restoring both domestic and international confidence in the Lebanese government will ultimately depend on taking tangible steps towards economic revival. This article presents key policy options to achieve this result, including rebuilding trust through improved governance and judicial reforms, investing in digital infrastructure, driving sustainable growth via regional integration and innovation, and balancing economic revival with sovereign debt restructuring.
