{"id":194900,"date":"1998-07-15T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=194900"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:54:12","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:54:12","slug":"auto-insert-194900","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-194900\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank supports projects in West Bank and Gaza – Press release"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PRESS RELEASE
\nNews Release No. 99\/1891\/MENA<\/p><\/div>\n

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Contact:  Middle East & North Africa Region Regional Communications Unit
\nTelephone No: 202-473-2623
\nFax No: 202-522-0003  <\/p><\/div>\n

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WORLD BANK COMMITTED $20 MILLION TO PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY IN FISCAL YEAR 1998 <\/p><\/div>\n

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WASHINGTON, July 15, 1998 — The World Bank approved a total of $20 million to support two development projects in West Bank & Gaza (WBG) during fiscal year 1998 (July 1997––June 1998). An additional $80 million was mobilized from other donors to co-finance these two operations. This compares to World Bank lending commitments of $83 million in FY97. <\/p><\/div>\n

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World Bank Commitments to WBG (FY 98, $millions)
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\nGaza Industrial Est.
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Total funds of $320 million for financing Bank-supported projects in WBG came out of the World Bank’s surplus income and are provided on IDA terms with a maturity of 40 years, including a 10-year grace period, and a service charge of 0.75 percent per annum. Since FY94, the World Bank has committed $213.5 million for 13 development projects in WBG. An additional $285 million were mobilized from other donors to co-finance these 13 operations. <\/p><\/div>\n

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IDA Commitments to West Bank & Gaza in FY98 <\/p><\/div>\n

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PALESTINIAN NGO PROJECT
\nCredit Amount: US$10 Million (IDA); Approval Date: July 10, 1997
\nProject Objectives: The project is designed to channel funds to the poor and needy, utilizing the services of Palestinian NGOs as delivery mechanisms. <\/p><\/div>\n

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GAZA INDUSTRIAL ESTATE PROJECT
\nCredit Amount: US$10 Million (IDA); Approval Date: January 20, 1998
\nProject Objectives: The project supports the establishment of Gaza Industrial Estate at Al-Muntar border crossing point in Gaza Strip. It is the first largely export-oriented industrial zone, or "estate," to help guarantee sustainable employment and stimulate industrial development in the Palestinian Territories. <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PRESS RELEASE News Release No. 99\/1891\/MENA Contact:  Middle East & North Africa Region Regional Communications Unit Telephone No: 202-473-2623 Fax No: 202-522-0003   WORLD BANK COMMITTED $20 MILLION TO PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY IN FISCAL YEAR 1998 WASHINGTON, July 15, 1998 — The World Bank approved a total of $20 million to support two development projects in West Bank […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[1329],"document-source":[1957],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,1937,5362,2465],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-194900","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-press-release","document-source-world-bank","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-economic-issues","document-subject-ngo-civil-society","document-subject-poverty","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/194900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/document"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/194900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=194900"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=194900"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=194900"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=194900"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=194900"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=194900"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=194900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}