{"id":199889,"date":"2007-04-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=199889"},"modified":"2019-03-12T17:52:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T17:52:06","slug":"auto-insert-199889","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-199889\/","title":{"rendered":"West Bank and Gaza update: Economic Developments in 2006-A First Assessment – World Bank publication"},"content":{"rendered":"
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INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND—THE WORLD BANK<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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WEST BANK AND GAZA<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN 2006—A FIRST ASSESSMENT<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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MARCH 2007<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n

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After having experienced a modest recovery in 2003–05, the Palestinian economy suffered another decline in 2006, as a result of the domestic and international political difficulties.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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Although hard data are scarce, real GDP is estimated to have fallen within a range of 5 to 10 percent in 2006, less than initially had been feared, but still leaving average real per capita GDP at almost 40 percent below its 1999 level. Stronger-than-expected official and private inflows have helped prevent a much sharper decline in incomes and consumption in 2006, thus cushioning the overall contraction. But with a larger decline in investment, from an already low level, this also signals a further hollowing out of the Palestinian economy and an increase in its dependency on foreign aid.<\/i><\/p><\/div>\n

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FULL REPORT:<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND—THE WORLD BANK WEST BANK AND GAZA ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS IN 2006—A FIRST ASSESSMENT MARCH 2007 After having experienced a modest recovery in 2003–05, the Palestinian economy suffered another decline in 2006, as a result of the domestic and international political difficulties. Although hard data are scarce, real GDP is estimated to have fallen […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"country":[],"document-category":[2589,1323],"document-source":[2733,1957],"committee-meeting":[],"document-subject":[1945,1937],"entity":[1729],"document-language":[6542],"class_list":["post-199889","document","type-document","status-publish","hentry","document-category-publication","document-category-report","document-source-international-monetary-fund-imf","document-source-world-bank","document-subject-assistance","document-subject-economic-issues","entity-united-nations-system","document-language-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document\/199889","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\/199889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"country","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/country?post=199889"},{"taxonomy":"document-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-category?post=199889"},{"taxonomy":"document-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-source?post=199889"},{"taxonomy":"committee-meeting","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/committee-meeting?post=199889"},{"taxonomy":"document-subject","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-subject?post=199889"},{"taxonomy":"entity","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/entity?post=199889"},{"taxonomy":"document-language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/document-language?post=199889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}