Research
Four axes, one question: how do people get by?
Each programme combines national-scale data collection with close reading of Lebanese and Mediterranean social realities.
A
Labor Economics, Precariousness & Employment Transitions
How Lebanese households earn, lose and improvise their living — from the erosion of productive wages to the informal arrangements that fill the gap after 2019.
B
Cultural & Creative Industries (CCI / ICC) & Economic Development
Putting a number on culture: measuring what creative work contributes to the economy, and what it takes to make it employable.
C
Poverty, Inequalities & Social Protection
Deprivation as lived experience — of water, public goods and safety nets — and what policy reform does to the households on the other end.
D
Social Capital & Institutional Governance
Trust — in institutions and in each other — as an economic variable, and a lens on the uprisings that reshaped the Arab world.