{"id":3753,"date":"2016-09-06T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T19:48:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-01-04T03:39:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T01:39:40","slug":"epalestine-unctad-staggering-economic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/2016\/09\/epalestine-unctad-staggering-economic\/","title":{"rendered":"UNCTAD: The staggering economic cost of occupation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Only $448 billion<\/strong>, and that was only up until year 2000!<\/p>\n

This new economic report from United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is of utmost importance. It focus on the damage done to the Palestinian economy by this prolonged Israeli occupation.<\/p>\n

Here is the link to the press release<\/a>. You may download the brief report in PDF here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Be sure to watch for the upcoming analysis. The indefatigable Dr. Samia al-Botmeh, assistant professor in economics and researcher at the Centre for Development Studies at Birzeit University, and Dr. Raja Khalidi, MAS Research Coordinator, presented the report today at the Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute-MAS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Dr. Samia al-Botmeh and Dr. Raja
\nKhalidi, Sept. 6, 2016 at MAS<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Only $448 billion, and that was only up until year 2000! This new economic report from United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is of utmost importance. It focus on the damage done to the Palestinian economy by this prolonged Israeli occupation. Here is the link to the press release. You may download the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":3754,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[963,944],"tags":[461,35,259,48,40,158,462],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-3753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-economy","category-reports-on-palestine","tag-cost","tag-economy","tag-economy-of-occupation","tag-gaza","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-occupied-territories","tag-unctad"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder & Emeritus Member of Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5875,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3753\/revisions\/5875"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3753"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}