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Palestine Authority completes the “100 days economic plan”

2019-05-23

Palestine Authority announced completing a short term economic plan under the name “ 100 days plan” with total value of $245 million that is based on encouraging the agricultural, tourism and industrial production, reducing poverty and unemployment, strengthening the role of women and youth, relying on the vocational training, safeguarding public freedoms, enhancing transparency, establishing industrial cities, creating entrepreneur projects, investing in the energy sector , taking care of the financial resources, in addition to being separated from the Occupation. Whereby this plan will be implemented through guiding itself to development through agricultural, industrial and tourism clusters in several cities in Palestine. Moreover, creating business plans with partners to restructure the electricity sector done by being able to purchase electricity from Jordan through providing a loan worth $50 million to solve the current electricity problems and providing solutions to prevent raising the electricity prices for citizens. In addition to relying on vocational training for graduates, and relying on the development through moving from being in need to production by reinforcing the private sector role to develop and economy, and creating investment-stimulating environment, promoting entrepreneurship and empowerment projects, and tranfering the ownership of the economic empowerment project from the United Nations Program “ UNDP” to the Palestinian Authority with a total of $27 million. In addition to executing infrastructure projects with total value of $144 million, develop and improve the marginalized areas and being responsible for Jerusalem and the old city of Hebron, besides empowering women and marginalized groups, and institutional building and reforming.