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Nov 2020
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Episode 17 - Gender Inequality in Econom...

The Lebanese Center For Policy Studies
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In this episode, Sami Zoughaib hosts Dr. Nisreen Salti to discuss how the effects of Lebanon’s multifaceted crises have been affecting women disproportionately, the spillover of this phenomenon on the general socio-economic landscape, and the mitigation measures that should be included in the larger recovery framework.

في هذه الحلقة، يستضيف سامي زغيب الدكتورة نسرين سلطي لمناقشة تأثير أزمات لبنان المتعددة الأوجه على النساء، وآثار هذه الظاهرة على المشهد الاجتماعي والاقتصادي العام، والتدابير التي يجب تضمينها في إطار خطة التعافي الشاملة.

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