  {"id":206799,"date":"2015-12-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=206799"},"modified":"2019-03-12T19:15:28","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:15:28","slug":"auto-insert-206799","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-206799\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank transfers US$22 million in budget support to Palestine &#8211; WB press release"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">\n<hr height=\"7px\" \/>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:8px;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>P<\/strong><strong>RE<\/strong><strong>SS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;padding-bottom:5px;font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><strong>An Additional US$22 Million in Budget Support to the Palestinian Authority<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">Washington, December 23, 2015&#8211; The World Bank has transferred an amount of about US$22 million to the Palestinian Authority from the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan Trust Fund (PRDP-MDTF), a multi-donor budget support mechanism administered by the Bank.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The funds contributed by the governments of France, Norway, and the United Kingdom, will help support the urgent budget needs of the Palestinian Authority (PA), providing&#160;<i>inter alia<\/i>&#160;support for ongoing macroeconomic and public financial management reforms. &#160;&#160;<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">The World Bank PRDP Trust Fund was established on April 10, 2008, through an agreement signed between the World Bank and the Palestinian Authority. It is a central component of a World Bank&#8217;s effort to support the ongoing Palestinian Reform and Development Plan. Currently, the PRDP-MDTF donors are the governments of Australia, France, Kuwait, Norway, the United Kingdom, and Japan.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"color:#000000;text-align:left;font-size:8pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\">With the new tranche release, the PRDP-MDTF will have disbursed about US$1.4 billion.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:left;\">\n<p style=\"margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2015\/12\/23\/an-additional-us-22-million-in-budget-support-to-the-palestinian-authority\" style=\"color:#0000ff;text-align:left;font-size:6pt;font-family:Arial, san-serif;\">http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/news\/press-release\/2015\/12\/23\/an-additional-us-22-million-in-budget-support-to-the-palestinian-authority<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE An Additional US$22 Million in Budget Support to the Palestinian Authority Washington, December 23, 2015&#8211; The World Bank has transferred an amount of about US$22 million to the Palestinian Authority from the Palestinian Reform and Development Plan Trust Fund (PRDP-MDTF), a multi-donor budget support mechanism administered by the Bank. 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