“Developing Countries Are Paying Too Much to Borrow,” with Vera Songwe, Project Syndicate, 16 September 2025

“Curbing Debt-Fueled Unrest in Emerging Markets,” with Vera Songwe, Project Syndicate, 14 August 2024

“Developing Countries’ Liquidity Crisis Is Not Over“, with Vera Songwe, Project Syndicate, 16 April 2024

“Developing Countries Need Debt Relief to Act on Climate Change“, with Vera Songwe, Project Syndicate, 24 January 2024

“Bridging the Climate-Development Gap,” with Dani Rodrik, Project Syndicate, 26 September 2023

“The New Debt Crisis of the Middle East: Political Economy to the Rescue?” Carnegie Middle East Center, 13 June 2023

“Growing Out of the Developing-Country Debt Crisis”, with Philippe LeHouerou, Project Syndicate, 24 May 2023

“Is Egypt Too Big to Fail or Too Big to Bail?” Carnegie Middle East Center, May 8 May 2023

“Will China Help Resolve Lowe-Income Countries’ Debt Crisis,” with Shang-Jin Wei, Devex, 3 February 2023

“Rescuing Economic Growth in Highly Indebted Developing Countries,” with Dani Rodrik and Reza Bakir, Project Syndicate, 11 January 2023

“The Historical Roots of State Weakness and Social Inequities in Lebanon,” with Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Economic Research Forum (policy portal), 17 January 2023

“Can social activism for a new economic model get us out of our deep hole?” Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (AUB), 19 January 2023

To escape the crisis, embark on a path of renewal, with Ibrahim El-Badawi, Economic Research Forum (policy portal), 18 October 2022

“A fork in the road for development financing,” with Daniel Cohen, Project Syndicate, 19 August 2022

“Can Sudan’s Democratic Opening Be Reopened?“, with Ibrahim Elbadawi, Project Syndicate, 16 November 2021

“How Economic Policies Affect Political Regimes? Comparing the 2020s to the 1980s in the Middle East and North Africa,” Les dossiers du CERI (Sciences Po) , October 2021

“Arab States’ Risky Medium-Term Bets,” Middle East Institute, 19 October 2021

“How Things Fall Apart,” Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (AUB), 4 September 2021; republished in L’Orient-Le Jour on 5 September 2021

“Lebanon’s economic crisis: A tragedy in the making,” with Amer Bisat and Marcel Cassard, Middle East Institute, 29 March 2021

“Covid-19, trust and rising economic challenges in the Arab world,” with Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Economic Research Forum (policy portal), 22 December 2020

“Armed Forces in Power and in Business“, Carnegie Middle East Center, 26 October 2020

“La réforme de l’économie libanaise, condition de la révolution politique ?” L’Orient-Le Jour, 14 Octobre 2020

“Lebanon’s Dysfunctional Political Economy,” Project Syndicate, 27 July 2020

“L’aide du FMI : un processus long et difficile,” with Amer Bisat and Marcel Cassard, L’Orient-Le Jour, 14 May 2020

“A Grave Crisis, With No Silver Bullet,” with Amer Bisat and Marcel Cassard, Carnegie Middle East Center, 11 May 2020

“Lebanon: Managing Covid-19 in the Time of Revolution,” with Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Arab Reform Initiative, 7 May 2020

“Killer Lockdowns,” with Joelle M. Abi-Rached, Economic Research Forum (policy portal), 21 April 2020

“Crise économique au Liban : l’avenir d’un pays dans la balance,” with Maha Yahya, Moyen-Orient, no. 46, April-May 2020

“Why Lebanon’s Debt Problem Is Super Hard to Sort Out,” Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, April 2020

“Lebanon’s economic crisis: how to avoid a ‘lost decade’,” ERF Policy Portal, 11 March 2020

“Le Liban au bord de la dépression,” Alternatives économiques, 29 January 2020

“The trouble with the creeping expropriation of depositors,” with other signatories, Annahar, 24 January 2020

“Halte à l’expropriation rampante des déposants au Liban !”, with other signatories, L’Orient-Le Jour, 24 January 2020

“Cronyism reduces job creation in Lebanon,” with Jamal Haidar, ERF Policy Portal, 22 January 2020

“Road map to an orderly restructuring of Lebanese public sector debt”:

  • with other signatories, Annahar, 21 January 2020

“Lebanon’s Perfect Storm,” Project Syndicate, 9 January 2020

“Lebanon’s Economic Crisis: A Ten Point Action Plan for Avoiding a Lost Decade” :

“A Brewing Storm: An In-Depth Analysis of Lebanon’s Economy,” with Amer Bisat, Haneen Sayed, and Maha Yahya, Carnegie Middle East Center, [published in English and Arabic], 23 December 2019

“Économie : La mort du miracle libanais ?” L’Orient-Le Jour, 29 November 2019

“Is the Lebanese miracle dead?” Annahar, 26 November 2019

“The Arab Winter of Discontent,” Project Syndicate, 31 October 2019

 “Will Sudan Break Through Democracy,” Project Syndicate, 16 September 2019

 “Pulling Sudan Back from the Brink,” Project Syndicate, 7 June 2019

 “The Arab Spring’s Second Chance,” Project Syndicate, 23 April 2019

“En Algérie, une seconde lutte d’indépendance,” L’Orient-Le Jour, 5 April 2019

 “Algeria’s Second Arab Spring,” Project Syndicate, 28 March 2019

“Trois grandes questions doivent être abordées pour relever le défi économique en Arabie saoudite,” Le Monde, 7 April 2018

“La révolte algérienne est bien dans la continuité des “printemps arabes”” with El Mouhoub Mouhoud Le Monde, 4 April 2018

 “Saudi Arabia’s Populist Temptation,” Project Syndicate, 15 November 2017

 “The Middle East’s Oil-Price Problem,” Project Syndicate, 7 June 2017

 “The Arab Spring and the Western Winter,” Project Syndicate, 27 March 2017

“Creating Jobs Through Pro-Market Rather Than Pro-Business Policies,” with Jamal Haidar, Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, February 2017

“Low social and political returns to education in the Arab world,” Economic Research Forum (policy portal), 26 December 2017

 “Egypt and Tunisia’s Divergent Paths,” Project Syndicate, 22 November 2016

 “How to Help the Middle East,” Project Syndicate, 8 September 2016

 “The Silent Arab Majority Must Speak Up,” Project Syndicate, 13 June 2016

“La voie de la réforme en Arabie saoudite,” Le Monde, 3 May 2016

“Saudi Arabia’s Reform Path,” Project Syndicate, 29 April 2016

“Il ne faut pas s’attendre à ce que les élites des pays arabes réforment l’éducation si cela doit mettre leur survie en péril,” Le Monde, 27 April 2016

 “The Emancipation Gap in Arab Education,” Project Syndicate, 7 April 2016

“Aux pays musulmans de réviser leurs ‘politiques d’éducation’” with El Mouhoub Mouhoud, Le Monde, 28 March 2016

 “Economic Growth After the Arab Spring,” Project Syndicate, 4 March 2016