Planning ministers, economists consider ways to bolster sagging Palestinian economy, on Jordan seminar's second day.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-21 February 2008-United Nations: Planning ministers, economists consider ways to bolster sagging Palestinian economy, on Jordan seminar's second day(C)1994-2008 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD

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AMMAN, 20 February -- The mix of ingredients for a viable Palestinian economy was the focus of the Seminar's plenary this morning, with the Planning Minister from the Palestinian Authority, an Israeli economist, and the head of operations of the European Commission's Technical Assistance Office among the panellists offering recipes for improving the dire economic situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

The General Director of the Tel Aviv-based Macro Center for Political Economics, Roby Nathanson, said that there had been a...