A conversation with Lamia Moubayed - President of Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan. Taped live at Aaliya's Books.

A look back on Basil Fuleihan's legacy in addition to current efforts to promote fiscal awareness and responsibility, simplifying budgets for citizen access, public procurement and limited success stories, and a necessary 'militantism' from within that pushes for better civic engagement and public service.

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Timestamps:

0:00 Intro

1:49 The Institute

9:10 Basil Fuleihan

13:38 Anti-establishment sentiment

18:50 Tied to the Ministry of Finance

29:18 Citizen budget

40:14 'Militantism'

45:26 Procurement

1:05:25 Public investment

1:08:30 Oil revenue

1:15:36 Q&A