Ramallah, Palestinian Territory (IRIN) – Izz Tawil draws a black circle on the flip-chart in his office in Ramallah, capital of the West Bank in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt). “The Palestinian economy is a closed cash-circle,” the general manager of the Palestinian microfinance network Sharakeh explains. He goes on to draw several small arrows [...]
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Visions for a healthier West Bank economy
January 13th, 2012 
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Comments OffHousing Bust Derails Some Seniors’ Assisted-Living Care
August 22nd, 2011 davidguide Washington, DC, United States (KaiserHealth) – When her 86-year-old mother, a retired nurse with Alzheimer’s disease, started wandering away from her Tallahassee, Fla., home in 2007, LuMarie Polivka-West knew it was time to move her and her 94-year-old father into an assisted-living facility. But because of the collapse in the real estate market, she couldn’t [...]
UNRWA Strike Closes Schools, Clinics In West Bank Camps
November 15th, 2010 davidguide The Media Line Staff West Bank, Palestinian Territory David E. Miller – Schools and clinics are shuttered, and garbage has been piling up on streets across the West Bank’s 19 refugee camps, as some 5,000 striking employees of the United Nations Works and Relief Agency (UNRWA) have brought critical public services to a halt in [...]
Posted in Lending News Tags: Al-Fawwar, Bank, Barbara Shenstone, Bethlehem, Camps, Clinics, closes, Commissioner-General Filippo Grandi, david e miller, David E. Miller - Schools, Director John Ging, dispute, Gaza Strip, government hospitals, Hashash, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Middle East, Palestine, palestinian refugees, refugee, refugee camp, refugee camps, Sami Mshasha, Schools, Strike, Syria, Union, UNRWA, West, West Bank, west bank palestinians Comments OffU.N., U.S., Palestinians Blast Israel For Resuming Settlement Construction
October 22nd, 2010 davidguide AHN News Staff Tel Aviv, Israel (AHN) – In less than a month after Israel’s construction ban expired, Jewish settlers have begun building over 600 homes in the disputed West Bank region. The construction comes at a time when Middle East peace talks were already on the verge of collapse. Now, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud [...]
Posted in Lending News Tags: ban, Blast, Carter, construction, east Jerusalem, east peace talks, former president jimmy carter, Gaza, Israel, Lending, mahmoud abbas, Middle East, middle east peace, palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas, Palestinians, peace, President Jimmy Carter, president mahmoud abbas, Resuming, Robert Serry, settlement, Tel Aviv, U.N., U.S., West Comments OffChina aims to boost bank loans to Africa
October 9th, 2010 davidguide China, criticised in the West for overlooking human rights abuses in its business dealings with poverty-stricken Africa, will encourage commercial banks to lend more to the continent, a Chinese trade official has said. View full post on All Stories
Posted in Lending News Tags: Africa, aims, Bank, boost, Business, business dealings, China, chinese trade, commercial banks, continent, criticised, human rights abuses, Loans, official, poverty, trade, View, West Comments OffUnderstand one of the 5Es: the transfer of wealth and power from the West to the East
October 20th, 2009 davidguide If you are like me, you probably have been hit hard by this financial crisis. There is a lot of uncertainty in the air. Conventional wisdom is not working any more. Many are seeking to understand this turmoil and are wondering what they should be doing to not only survive, but thrive, [...]
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