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Last updated: July 29, 2025
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Joey Ghaleb is a senior economist with over 25 years of experience in public sector reforms and domestic revenue mobilization (DRM). His World Bank experience spans the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, and East Europe and Central Asia. Joey is also a core member of the World Bank Global Solutions Group on DRM providing cross-support and contributing to global DRM solutions. Prior to joining the World Bank, Joey was working for Booz Allen Hamilton advising governments in the MENA region. He also served as Chief Economist and advisor to the Lebanese Minister of Economy and Trade where he contributed to the trade negotiations with the World Trade Organization and the signature of the Association Agreement with the European Union. Joey’s thematic experience includes tax administration reforms, tax policy, public finance management, institutional restructuring and strategic development, competition and trade policy, and private sector development. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin and a Masters in econometrics. Joey is a founding member of the Lebanese branch of Transparency International.

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    From Theory to Practice: A Strategic AI Integration Model for Revenue Administrations
    (Washington, DC: World Bank, 2025-07-18) Junquera, Raúl; Krsul, Ivan; Calderón, Vladimir; Ghaleb, Joey; Lucas, Cristian
    This paper presents a comprehensive strategic framework for integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into revenue administrations. The framework addresses the challenges of implementing AI without a structured approach and emphasizes the importance of human-AI collaboration. It proposes a three-phase implementation strategy, inception, consolidation, and optimization, designed to incrementally build capacity, establish governance structures, and optimize AI systems over time. By following this framework, revenue administrations can effectively harness the power of AI to enhance efficiency, improve taxpayer services, and strengthen compliance efforts while maintaining public trust and transparency.
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    Lebanon Education Public Expenditure Review 2017
    (World Bank, Washington, DC, 2018-06-22) Sayed, Haneen Ismail; Abdul-Hamid, Husein; Krayem, Dima; Ghaleb, Joey R.
    This Education Public Expenditure Review (PER) analyzes public expenditures and outcomes since 2004. Its purpose is to help the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MEHE) set priorities; and make decisions on resource allocation, utilization, efficiencies, and management, and in achieving learning goals against a backdrop of serious economic and political challenges. The influx of refugees since 2011 from the Syria Crisis has created new issues for MEHE, which compound pre-conflict challenges in the education sector. The PER uses multiple sources including administrative and household-level micro-survey data, as well as results of national and international assessments among others (see annex 1 for full sources and description). It tackles the composition of and trends in government spending and resulting impact on education inputs and outcomes, as well as internal and external efficiencies. The equity dimension—in terms of geographic location, household socioeconomic status, and gender—is also explored in detail. It evaluates current processes in budget planning and execution. Finally, the PER makes a series of policy recommendations for the government's consideration.
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    Trade and Competition Policies for Growth in Lebanon: A General Equilibrium Analysis
    (2008) Dessus, Sebastien; Ghaleb, Joey R.
    Using recent data on concentration indexes, we estimate that rents accruing from monopolistic positions represent more than 16 percent of GDP in Lebanon. In turn, using an applied computable general equilibrium model, we compare the long term impact of raising domestic competition with that of reducing import tariffs. Simulation results suggest that Lebanon would largely benefit from the reduction of anti-competitive practices. By way of comparison, reducing tariffs would be structurally less effective in terms of raising investment opportunities and real wages, which, in the long run, would inevitably affect economic growth.