Lebanon’s Informal Economy Is at Risk as Syrians Return to Their Country

El Periódico

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Ownership

Mohammed is the boy for everything. At the gates of the 30th, this young Syrian refugee knows each and every one of the tenants of a dozen buildings in Mar Mijael, the fashionable neighborhood of Beirut. Mohammed, without being his concierge. He collects the monthly payments of the private generator that provides them with electricity, helps transport furniture from one apartment to another, raises the gas cylinder down the stairs, and has a rep…