لمحة موجزة عن بحث لفريق البحث للحد من التدخين في الجامعة الأميركية في بيروت | آب 2009
لمحة موجزة عن سوق التبغ اللبنانيجاد شعبانو ناديا نعماني و نسرين سلطي
يجري حاليا تنفيذ مكافحة التدخين في مختلف بلدان العالم، وذلك نتيجة للتأثير المباشر لتدخين التبغ على الصحة. وفي لبنان عدد من القوانين المعلّقة المرتبطة بمكافحة التدخين ولكن لم يتم تصديق وتنفيذ أي منها بعد. تهدف هذه الورقة إلى فهم سوق التبغ اللبنانية وتقييم ما إذا كانت هذه السوق تخلق إيرادات أو تكاليف للإقتصاد اللبناني. وهذا من شأنه أن يقدّم معلومات قيمة للمناظرة التشريعية القائمة حول إقرار قانون جديد لمكافحة التدخين، كما انه يطلع صانعي...
On December 9, 2009, a Lebanese criminal court sentenced a Lebanese woman to 15 days in jail for repeatedly beating Jonalin Malibago, her Filipina maid, three years earlier.
This paper was produced by ANND and Christian Aid and contains five main sections: “Executive Summary: a crisis of multiple dimensions; the threat of explosive vulnerabilities and increasing insecurities”, “Vulnerability to poverty: the key challenges faced by the Arab region”
The aim of the “Socio-Economic Assessment in Nahr el-Bared surrounding areas” report is to provide an assessment of the pre and post conflict conditions of households located in the vicinity of Nahr el Bared camp for a variety of livelihood aspects including: housing, health,
The Israeli July 2006 war exposed the Lebanese population to disastrous conditions. It has profoundly affected residents’ livelihoods through bringing down access to services, infrastructure and natural resources. Responding to these emerging problems poses further challenges for the Lebanese government and society. In this respect, different emergency measures have been undertaken to address the arising needs, starting with assessing physical, economic and social damages.
As a contribution to identifying short and medium term intervention needs, the World Bank initiated undertaking a Post...
This national survey provides a vital statistical database on the demographic and the educational status in Lebanon; the residential fact and the economic activity of the individuals; the health insurance, the migration, the family’s income and the aid received during the war
Using time-diary data from 25 countries, the authors demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day -- the sum of work for pay and work at home.
In 2002 the Lebanese Physically Handicapped Union (LPHU) conducted a study of 200 graduates of institutions for disabled people, to find out if institutions help disabled people enjoy their rights in the areas of education and employment, as set out in Lebanon’s laws on disabi
We analyze intra-family support among Palestinians living in Lebanon, using detailed household survey data from the refugee camps and Palestinian communities in Lebanon and latent class analysis technique. The study uncovers five latent classes of familial exchange.
The forum was held less than two months after 9/11. The forum included general discussions as well as teach-ins on specific issues related to globalization, the WTO, and the challenges in the Arab world under the current world order.
To help expand the focus of the social protection debate to include the informal sector, particularly women workers, the ILO global programme STEP, "Strategies and Tools against Social Exclusion and Poverty" and the global network called Women in Informal Employment: Globalizi
