The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Refugees and Host Communities Working in the Informal Economy in Lebanon

​​The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs (IFI) at the American University of Beirut (AUB) hosted Kanj Hamade, Assistant Professor of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development at the Lebanese University, and Martha Chen, Lecturer in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Co-Founder, Emeritus International Coordinator and Senior Advisor of the global network “Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing”, in a webinar titled “Lebanon’s Critical Economic Crisis: The Impact on Refugees from Syria and Host Community Members working in the Informal Economy” on Wednesday, September 30, 2020. Nasser Yassin, Director of Research at IFI and co-chair of the AUB4Refugees Initiative conversed with the speakers and moderated the discussion.

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