Palestinian economy in decline
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The Palestinian economy is in crisis, performing well below its potential, the World Bank says.
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Business & money: Wage growth in the public sector slows to lowest level in nine years.
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The history of the Middle East is at a turning point, as Yasser Arafat&#39;s health deteriorates and Israel takes steps to withdraw from the Gaza Strip.
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The four-year intifada has left the Palestinian economy - and government - in shambles.
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There are reports from the Palestinian territories that the health of leader Yasser Arafat is deteriorating. There has been concern in recent weeks about the Palestinian Authority head&#39;s health was worsening
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Efforts to form a Palestinian government acceptable to the West have gone "back to zero," Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday, a day after Hamas said a coalition government that recognizes Israel is unacceptable.
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The Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, dropped out after the two sides could not agree on an agenda.
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Iraq's economy is weaker than at any point since the US invasion in 2003.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank  - Palestinian President  Yasser Arafat's health has worsened sharply and he is slipping  in and out of consciousness at his besieged West Bank  headquarters, officials and medics said on Thursday.
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Philippine economic growth slowed in the second quarter as farm output fell, making it harder for President Gloria Arroyo to win parliamentary approval for tax increases and spending cuts she is seeking.
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Some kibbutzes are on the verge of collapse as they cope with debt and attrition.
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Standards of human rights in the Palestinian territories fall to intolerable new levels, the UN hears.
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Hope for progress toward peace in the region is tempered by a Palestinian power vacuum. By Ben Lynfield | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor.
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International donors to the Palestinian Authority will meet in Oslo next week amid concern that aspects of Israel&#39;s planned withdrawal from parts of the occupied territories may harm an already shattered economy.
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Three of every four Palestinians live in poverty and their economy still depends on donors, despite 4.5 percent economic growth last year, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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Surveys released this week show that nearly 50 percent of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip face dire poverty, while an increasing number of Israelis have also slipped below the poverty line.
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The citrus industry in the land of Jaffa oranges, squeezed for a decade by economic decline and a Palestinian uprising, is blossoming again.