Hossein Cheaito

Hi, I'm Hossein Cheaito, pHD Student in economic sociology at the Geneva graduate institute

PUBLICATIONS

Union of Municipalities as Enablers of Local Economic Development - Federation of the Northern Coastal and Central Matn Municipalities | United Nations Development ProgrammeThe ‘Municipal Empowerment and Resilience Project’ (MERP) is a joint initiative by UNDP and UN-Habitat. The Project is implemented in partnership with the Ministry of Interior and Municipalities (MoIM) and is funded by the European Union (EU) through the EU Regional Trust Fund in Response to the Syrian Crisis, the ‘Madad Fund’.

Thinking Queerly About Lebanon’s Mega-CrisesAmid loud neglect of sexuality, gender, race, and class in unpacking Lebanons' crippling social and economic collapse, this article aims to highlight the socioeconomic violence brought by Lebanon’s government and monetary authorities on the LGBTQIA+ community.

Lebanon’s $3 Billion IMF Deal and the Art of Illusory ReformThe current IMF deal has inflated the illusion of conducting reform in Lebanon. It has offered the political and banking elites more time and wider opportunity to maneuver around proposed reforms to protect one another. But the larger society cannot afford lost time anymore.

The Policy Initiative - Tourism and remittances are not a panacea for Lebanon's financial woesHussein Cheaito and Sami Zoughaib take a closer look at the two major sources of foreign capital - remittances and tourism revenues - and how they have contributed to further inequality and non-investment in Lebanon, as the country sinks deeper into the financial and economic crisis

MEDIA APPEARANCES

'We are forced to be bank robbers,' desperate Lebanese citizens say amid financial crisisBanks in Lebanon have partially reopened this week after the government had ordered them to be shut down. The closures were prompted by a spate of bank heists conducted by people whose savings have been stuck in banking system.

Wheat shipment from Ukraine arrives in LebanonLebanon continues to suffer from an acute financial crisis plaguing the country. But since Russia's invasion of Ukraine hit, the world's wheat supply has left Lebanon's already food-insecure population in much worse shape.

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