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Economics and DevelopmentLebanon

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Economics and DevelopmentLebanon

Development in a Polarized Society

This article seeks to examine development in Lebanon through a political economy lens. First, it argues that the Lebanese system could be depicted as a confessional-rentier system. It also argues that the historic choices of the urban elites towards the peripheries are not simply a matter of governance; they are intimately linked to the confessional-rentier