January 17, 2008Putting the Industrial Sector Back on Track by Developing New Exportable ProductsLCPS hosted a conference which sought to envision ways of igniting the structural transformation of Lebanon’s industrial sector by bringing together key stakeholders to debate and attempt to build consensus on the problems facing the sector on both policy and institutional levels. The four issues discussed were the absence of diversification policies; market structure, tariffs, and fees; cost of finance and overvalued exchange rate; and high electricity bills and expensive transport services.
