There are no official statistics on the numbers of Lebanese who have emigrated and are working abroad, nor on the immense sums of money they transfer to their home country. According to World Bank estimates, remittances comprised between
Julia Tierney
Julia Tierney is a doctoral candidate in City and Regional Planning from the University of California-Berkeley. Her dissertation is on the political economy of real estate investment in Lebanon. She holds degrees in city planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Professionally she has worked in urban development at the World Bank and in international finance on Wall Street.